Gender and power in the Japanese visual field / edited by Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, Maribeth Graybill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mostow, Joshua S., 1957-

Bryson, Norman, 1949-

Graybill, Maribeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and the arts--Japan.

Feminism and the arts.

Gender identity in art.

Women in art.

Arts, Japanese.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]

Summary:

In this first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, Chino Kaori's classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art" precedes explorations of a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the depiction of beautiful women in Edo-period advertising. A rare homoerotic picture-book is used to extrapolate the "grammar of desire" as represented in late seventeenth-century Edo. Contributors consider the introduction to Meiji Japan of the Western nude and examine Nihonga, or Japanese-style painting, as well as works produced for salons in colonial Korea. A study of Woman in the Dunes and its film adaptation scrutinizes the postwar period. The critical discourse that surrounded women artists of the late twentieth century is analyzed, followed by a consideration of gender ambiguity and cross-gender identification in contemporary anime and manga.

Contents:

2. Gender in Japanese Art / Chino Kaori 17

3. The Image of Women in Battle Scenes: "Sexually" Imprinted Bodies / Ikeda Shinobu 35

4. The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire / Joshua S. Mostow 49

5. Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama, and Art / David Pollack 71

6. Westernizing Bodies: Women, Art, and Power in Meiji Yoga / Norman Bryson 89

7. Icons of Femininity: Japanese National Painting and the Paradox of Modernity / Doris Croissant 119

8. Images of Women in National Art Exhibitions during the Korean Colonial Period / Kim Hyeshin 141

9. The Otherness of Women in the Avant-Garde Film Woman in the Dunes / Chigusa Kimura-Steven 155

10. Gender in Contemporary Japanese Art / Gunhild Borggreen 179

11. Busty Battlin' Babes: The Evolution of the Shojo in 1990s Visual Culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.

ISBN:

0824825721

OCLC:

50859011