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About the Author

Rhiannon Paget is the curator of Asian Art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. She received her doctorate from the University of Sydney and has published research on Japanese prints, paintings, textiles and popular visual culture as well as curating numerous exhibitions, including Saito Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening, in 2021.

Reviews

"Splendidly illustrated and meticulously researched, this charming and erudite book brings the richness and complexity of the feline subject in Japanese art into lively relief." --Andreas Marks, Ph.D., Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art

"As curator Rhiannon Paget writes in her new illustrated book Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art, cats are represented in the miniature sculptures known as netsuke, popular in the 17th to 19th centuries, and as a 'droll foil' for a beautiful woman in a painting by Hokusai (ca. 1803-04).…Some striking prints in Divine Felines come from 20th-century artists influenced by Western art, especially after the postwar American occupation of Japan." —Peter Saenger, The Wall Street Journal

"Packed with a lavish amount of iconic feline-themed work with detailed descriptions, Divine Felines is a delightful and well-researched foray into cats in Japanese art." --Manami Okazaki, author of Japanese Kokeshi Dolls