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The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / W. Puck Brecher.
Fine Arts Library N7353.6.E33 B74 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brecher, W. Puck.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Art, Japanese.
- Art, Japanese--Edo period.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Japan.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Aesthetics, Japanese--History.
- Aesthetics, Japanese.
- History.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Strange interpretations
- Contexts of strangeness in seventeenth century Japan
- Strange tastes: cultural eccentricity and its vanguard
- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies
- Eccentrics of recent times and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric
- Strangeness in the early nineteenth century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion
- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824836665
- 0824836669
- OCLC:
- 822895877
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