Lens Within the Heart

Timon Screech was trained at Oxford, Harvard and Gakushuin and is currently Reader in the History of Japanese Art at SOAS, University of London, and Senior Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. He is the author of over half a dozen books in Japanese and English on the culture of the Edo period, including Sex and the Floating World (1999) and The Shogun's Painted Culture (2000).

• List of Plates and Figures Preface Preface to 2nd Edition Introduction 1. Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 2. The 'Batavian Temperament' and its Critics 3. Mechanics and Motions 4. Machinery for Pictures 5. Seeing In 6. The Eye and the Lens 7. The View from on High Notes Glossary References Bibliographical Addendum Index

'A pioneering work, bold, wide-ranging and challenging, full of sharp observations and provocative speculation' Ellis Tinios, Burlington Magazine 'Grand, unique and panoramic...a masterly exposition of the topics and materials, this book is also tremendously enjoyable' Madoka Kanai, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo 'Screech's highly innovative research is more accurately characterized as applied art history, considerably cross-fertilized as it is by parallel currents of intellectual and cultural histories' Tim Clark, Japan Forum