The visual culture of Meiji Japan : negotiating the transition to modernity / edited by Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller

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Contents: Japan as Far West : An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana Space / Michio Hayashi -- Medievalism and Militarism in Imperial Japan / Oleg Benesch -- Colors of Empire : Watercolor in Meiji Japan / Chinghsin Wu
Summary: "This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan's transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Data Source: Smithsonian Libraries

Date: 2022; 19th century; 20th century; 19e siècle; 20e siècle

editor: Zohar, Ayelet; Miller, Alison J.

Type: Books; History

Physical description: xv, 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place: Japan; Japon

Topic: Art and society--History; Aesthetics, Japanese; Art et société--Histoire; Art and society

Record ID: siris_sil_1167430

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