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-

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Art, Japanese--1868-.

Art, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 516 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

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:

Western-style painting: four stages of acceptance / Emiko Yamanashi

Japanese painting from Edo to Meiji: rhetoric and reality / Ellen P. Conant

The expanding arts of the interwar period / Gennifer Weisenfeld

Sensō sakusen kirokuga: seeing Japan's war documentary painting as a public monument / Mayu Tsuruya

From resplendent signs to heavy hands: Japanese painting in war and defeat, 1937-1952 / Bert Winther-Tamaki

How gendai bijutsu stole the "museum": an institutional observation of the vanguard 1960s / Reiko Tomii

Fashion altars, performance factors, and pop cells: transforming contemporary Japanese art, one body at a time / Eric C. Shiner

The creation of the vocabulary of aesthetics in Meiji Japan / Michael F. Marra

Okakura Tenshin and aesthetic nationalism / John Clark

Japanese art criticism: the first fifty years / Mikiko Hirayama

Sculpture / Shūji Tanaka

Can architecture be both modern and "Japanese"? The expression of Japanese cultural identity through architectural practice from 1850 to the present / Jonathan M. Reynolds

The modern Japanese garden / Toshio Watanabe

Japanese prints 1868-2008 / Lawrence Smith

Aspects of twentieth-century crafts : the new craft and Mingei movements / Chiaki Ajioka

Japanese calligraphy since 1868 / Stephen Addiss

Adoption, adaptation, and innovation: the cultural and aesthetic transformations of fashion in modern Japan / Audrey Yoshiko Seo.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780824861025

0824861027

Publisher Number:

99984550770

Access Restriction:

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