Aesthetic life : beauty and art in modern Japan / Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippit, Miya Elise Mizuta, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Japan.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.

Arts, Japanese--1868-.

Arts, Japanese.

Aesthetics, Japanese--19th century.

Aesthetics, Japanese.

Aesthetics, Japanese--20th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.

Summary:

"Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"-- -Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: On first becoming a painting

All too aesthetically: the bijin in the era of Japonisme

"Fair Japan": art, war and the bijin at the Saint Louis World's Fair, 1904

True bijin: the debate on truth and beauty

Bijin graphic: illustrated magazines and the popular ideology of beauty

"Short-lived beauty": illustration and the bijin heroines of literary realism

Living works of art: Soseki's aesthetic heroines

Bijinga: the Nihonga genre and the fashioning of material beauty

Coda.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674975163

0674975162

9780674237308

0674237307

OCLC:

1059249850