The empty museum : Western cultures and the artistic field in modern Japan / Masaaki Morishita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morishita, Masaaki, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Exhibition techniques--Social aspects.

Art.

Art museums--Japan.

Art museums.

Art and society--Japan.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. Focusing on 'empty museums', one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums, Morishita shows how they developed, in relation to socio-cultural conditions at certain periods in modern Japanese history.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Transculturation and Bourdieu's Field Theory; 3 The Early Development of the Field of Bijutsu: The Bunten and the Art Group; 4 The Birth of the Regional Art Museum: Art Groups, and the Avant-garde; 5 Post-war Development: Curators and Museums of Modern Art; 6 Struggles between the Local Artist and the Curator; 7 Conclusion; Appendix: List of Personal Interviews; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-61605-X

1-317-03418-X

1-317-03417-1

1-282-74355-4

9786612743559

0-7546-9064-4

9781315616056

OCLC:

673141056