The visual culture of Meiji Japan : negotiating the transition to modernity / edited by Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zohar, Ayelet, editor.

Miller, Alison J., editor.

Series:

Routledge research in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Japan--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--Japan--History--20th century.

Aesthetics, Japanese--19th century.

Aesthetics, Japanese.

Aesthetics, Japanese--20th century.

Japan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan's transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space / Michio Hayashi

2. Meiji Calligraphy Between Eurocentric and Sinocentric Modernizations / Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

3. Classical Greece in Japan: Why Does It Matter? A Postcolonial Perspective / Michael Lucken

4. Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan / Oleg Benesch

5. Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the Presentation of Japan at the Enryokan / Mary Redfern

6. Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan / Alison J. Miller

7. Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokusho's Strive for Modern Japanese Painting / Katharina Rode

8. Mural Paintings in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western-Style Public Buildings in Japan / Emiko Yamanashi

9. Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaido / Ayelet Zohar

10. Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan / Chinghsin Wu

11. Exploring Tokyo's Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafu's Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914), With Charles Baudelaire's Flaneur and Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis' Porosity / Evelyn Schulz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Visual culture of Meiji Japan

ISBN:

9780367612849

0367612844

9780367631246

0367631245

OCLC:

1258039847

Publisher Number:

99992409718