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Title Geisha : beyond the painted smile / edited by the Peabody Essex Museum.

Publication Info. [New York] : George Braziller ; Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  GT3412 .G45 2004    Available  ---
Description 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Geishas -- Japan -- History.
Geishas.
Japan.
History.
Geishas -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1600-1868
Subject Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-1912.
Chronological Term 1868-1912
Subject Japan -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Peabody Essex Museum.
ISBN 0807615455 : $39.95
0875772005 paperback