Bachelor Japanists : Japanese aesthetics and Western masculinities / Christopher Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Christopher, 1961- author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Japanese.

East and West.

Masculinity in art.

Masculinity in literature.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Providing a new way of understanding Western views of and fascination with Japan, Bachelor Japanists illuminates the queerness of Western communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists drawn to Japanese aesthetics in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s. As Christopher Reed demonstrates, Japanese aesthetics became central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Reed explores the East-West encounter through revealing studies of the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in turn-of-the-century Boston: and the mid-twentieth-century-artists associated with the Seattle painter Mark Tobey. Book jacket.

Contents:

Originating Japanism: Fin-de-siecle Paris

Bachelor Brahmins: turn-of-the-century Boston

Sublimation and eccentricity in the art of Mark Tobey: Seattle at midcentury

On the End of Japanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231175746

0231175744

9780231175753

0231175752

OCLC:

964290111