Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takashina, Shūji, 1932-2024, author.

高階秀爾, 1932- author.

Contributor:

Treyvaud, Matt, translator.

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library

Standardized Title:

Nihon bijutsu o miru me. English

日本美術を見る眼. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Art, Japanese--To 1868.

Art, Japanese.

Painting, Japanese--Meiji period, 1868-1912.

Painting, Japanese.

Painting, Japanese--Meiji period.

Painting, Japanese--European influences.

Comparative arts.

Art.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

191 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First English edition.

Other Title:

Nihon bijutsu o miru me : Higashi to Nishi no deai : zōho : Eibunban

日本美術を見る眼 : 東と西の出会い : 増補 : 英文版

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.

Summary:

How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, the author, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty. The first section of the book, Methods of Japanese Art, uses examples and cross-cultural comparisons to elucidate the techniques by which Japanese artists cultivated their unique approach. These include roving rather than fixed perspective, the 'aesthetic of negation' - excising the unnecessary to emphasize what remains - and the 'trailing bough' motif, which evokes a world beyond the work's borders and influenced Western artists such as Monet. In the second section, East-West Encounters, the book examines the history of cultural interaction between Japan and the West from the early modern period on and its influence on the art of both. The third section, Passing Beauty, Returning Memory, contains essays on Japanese culture more broadly, including its preference for recurring forms over fixed monuments and its tradition of combining multiple seasons in a single image. This book is a guide not only to the art of Japan but to the essence of its spiritual culture. -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

Part 1. Methods of Japanese Art.

chapter 1. The character of Japanese Aesthetics

chapter 2. Object and Form

chapter 3. Forms of Seeing, East and West

chapter 4. The "Trailing Bough" Motif

chapter 5. The Art of the Journey

chapter 6. The Principle of Ornamentation.

Part II. East-West Encounters

chapter 7. East and West in Meiji Painting

chapter 8. The Avant-Garde in Japanese Art

chapter 9. Japanese Academism

chapter 10. Some Problems of Japonisme.

Part III. Passing Beauty, Returning Memory

chapter 11. The Aesthetics of Transition: the Four Seasons and the Japanese Sense of Beauty

chapter 12. "The Color of the Flowers": Symphonies of Image and Word

chapter 13. The Heritage of Memory: Intangible Culture as Japanese Tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book is a translation of Zōho Nihon bijutsu o miru me: Higathi to Nishi no deai, which was published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo, first in hardcover in 1991, follwed by a paperback edition in 1996, and then republished in 2009 with additional essays." -- colophone.

ISBN:

9784866581804

4866581808

OCLC:

1246723509