Since Meiji : perspectives on the Japanese visual arts, 1868-2000 / edited by J. Thomas Rimer ; translations by Toshiko McCallum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rimer, J. Thomas.

McCallum, Toshiko M. (Toshiko Miyabayashi), 1943-

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Art, Japanese--1868-.

Art, Japanese.

Physical Description:

x, 516 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]

Summary:

Maximum Embodiment presents a compelling thesis articulating the historical character of Yoga, literally the "Western painting" of Japan. The term encompassed both establishment fine art and avant-gardist insurgencies, but in both cases, as the term suggests, it was typically focused on techniques, motifs, canons, or iconographies that were obtained in Europe and deployed by Japanese artists. This study defines a paradigm of embodied representation unique to yoga painting that may be conceptualized in four registers: first, the distinctive materiality of oil paint pigments on the picture surface; second, the depiction of palpable human bodies; third, the identification of the act and product of painting with a somatic expression of the artist's physical being; and finally, rhetorical metaphors of political and social incorporation. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Painting and the Allied Arts: From Meiji to the Present

1 Western-Style Painting: Four Stages of Acceptance / Emiko Yamanashi Yamanashi, Emiko 19

2 Japanese Painting from Edo to Meiji: Rhetoric and Reality / Ellen P. Conant Conant, Ellen P. 34

3 The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period / Gennifer Weisenfeld Weisenfeld, Gennifer 66

4 Senso Sakusen Kirokuga: Seeing Japans War Documentary Painting as a Public Monument / Mayu Tsuruya Tsuruya, Mayu 99

5 From Resplendent Signs to Heavy Hands: Japanese Painting in War and Defeat, 1937-1952 / Bert Winther-Tamaki Winther-Tamaki, Bert 124

6 How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the "Museum": An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s / Reiko Tomii Tomii, Reiko 144

7 Fashion Altars, Performance Factors, and Pop Cells: Transforming Contemporary Japanese Art, One Body at a Time / Eric C. Shiner Shiner, Eric C. 168

II Japanese Art of the Period in Its Cultural Context

8 The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan / Michael F. Marra Marra, Michael F. 193

9 Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism / John Clark Clark, John 212

10 Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years / Mikiko Hirayama Hirayama, Mikiko 257

III Individual Forms of Expression

11 Sculpture / Shuji Tanaka Tanaka, Shuji 283

12 Can Architecture Be Both Modern and "Japanese"? The Expression of Japanese Cultural Identity through Architectural Practice from 1850 to the Present / Jonathan M. Reynolds Reynolds, Jonathan M. 315

13 The Modern Japanese Garden / Toshio Watanabe Watanabe, Toshio 340

14 Japanese Prints 1868-2008 / Lawrence Smith Smith, Lawrence 361

15 Aspects of Twentieth-Century Crafts: The New Craft and Mingei Movements / Chiaki Ajioka Ajioka, Chiaki 408

16 Japanese Calligraphy since 1868 / Stephen Addiss Addiss, Stephen 445

17 Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Cultural and Aesthetic Transformations of Fashion in Modern Japan / Audrey Yoshiko Seo Seo, Audrey Yoshiko 471.

Notes:

Includes index.

Translations from the Japanese.

ISBN:

9780824834418

0824834410

9780824835828

0824835824

OCLC:

711835536