Une voie de l’« art premier » dans le Japon du XVIIe siècle
Abstracts
An Art Premier in 17th-Century Japan : Enku’s statues, Peregrine of the Essential. – The unique craftsmanship of the so-called “billhook carved” sculptures, of which thousands were discovered all over Japan in the mid-20th century, created a phenomenal social reaction – a craze for the artist, Enku, a 17th-century peregrinating hermit about whom almost nothing was known. Japanese ethnology and history can help us decipher such a work of art’s meaning in the quite special way taken by someone who practiced asceticism in the mountains. What technical and ritual processes underlay the recognition that such images have “power” by those who use them for devotional purposes, as objects of aesthetic delight or as means for constructing a sense of identity?
References
Bibliographical reference
Anne Bouchy, “Une voie de l’« art premier » dans le Japon du XVIIe siècle”, L’Homme, 165 | 2003, 143-172.
Electronic reference
Anne Bouchy, “Une voie de l’« art premier » dans le Japon du XVIIe siècle”, L’Homme [Online], 165 | janvier-mars 2003, Online since 27 March 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/201; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.201
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