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The imperial museums of Meiji Japan : architecture and the art of the nation / Alice Y. Tseng.
Penn Museum Library NA6690 .T74 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tseng, Alice Yu-Ting.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museum architecture--Japan.
- Museum architecture.
- Nationalism and architecture--Japan--History--19th century.
- Nationalism and architecture.
- Nationalism and architecture--Japan--History--20th century.
- Architecture and society--Japan--History--19th century.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture and society--Japan--History--20th century.
- History.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- x, 285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Encounters and translations: the origins of hakubutsukan and bijutsu
- The museum in Ueno Park: styling the nation
- The age of the imperial museum
- The Imperial Kyoto Museum: locating the past within the present
- The Imperial Nara Museum: administering history and religion
- The Hyokeikan Art Museum: debating the permanent place of art
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295987774
- 0295987774
- OCLC:
- 180190894
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