Geisha : beyond the painted smile / edited by the Peabody Essex Museum.
Peabody Essex Museum.
2004
GT3412 .G45 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Geisha : beyond the painted smile / edited by the Peabody Essex Museum.
ISBN
0807615455
0875772005 (pbk.)
Publication Details
[New York] : George Braziller ; Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum, c2004.
Language
English
Description
159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Call Number
GT3412 .G45 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.433900952
792.70280952 Pea
Note
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, (February 14-May 9, 2004) and presented at the Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco (June 25-September 26, 2004)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-150) and index.
Added Corporate Author
Peabody Essex Museum.
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Why do geisha exist? / Arthur Golden
I: Understanding geisha
A world behind closed doors / Lesley Downer
Identifying geisha in art and life: is she really a geisha? / Andrew L. Maske
II: Confronting the image
First encounters
emerging stereotypes: westerners and geisha in the late nineteenth century / Allen Hockley
The exotic geisha / Liza Dalby
The floating world today: photographs by Yoko Yamamoto text by Andrew L. Maske
III: Living art
Performance and play: the art and accomplishments of geisha / Andrew L. Maske
Geisha to the fore: Niwaka festivals and the new luminaries of Edo / Money L. Hickman
Geisha on stage and screen / Peter M. Grilli.

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