Yumeji Modern : Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan / Nozomi Naoi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naoi, Nozomi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Beyond the Modern Beauty is a holistic study of Takehisa Yumeji's (1884-1934) artistry that attempts to unify and understand the multiple discursive and social frameworks within which his images were animated with meaning. The book situates Yumeji's graphic art within the emerging mediascape of the 1900s and 1910s, when novel forms of reprographic media were enabling the creation of new spaces of visual culture and image circulation. Yumeji's graphic works developed in tandem with this quickly evolving sphere and ranged from illustrations in socialist bulletins with images of anti-war and leftist sentiment to fashionable images of beautiful women referred to as "Yumeji-style beauties" in books and magazines targeting a female audience. As such, Yumeji's works circulated widely and reveal his role in the cultivation of a new demographic of young female consumers, along with the reinvention of the woodblock medium from its centuries-long tradition of "floating-world pictures" (ukiyo-e) into a technically diverse vehicle of visual culture and avant-garde pictorialism. The book addresses Yumeji's art from the start of his career in 1905 to the 1920s, when his production of graphic works was the most prolific. The appendix introduces for the first time in English translation a substantial body of Yumeji's texts, including diary entries, poetry, essays, books, collection of works, and commentary alongside his illustrations. Commentaries and critiques by his contemporaries are also included and are translated forthe first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Modern Beauty and the Yumeji Style

The Socialist Platform: Yumeji as Illustrator

Reproducing the Reproducible: Yumeji and Mass Media

Creating an Alternative Space for the Print Medium:The Yumeji School and Tsukuhae Artists

The World Turned Upside Down: Yumeji and the Great Kantō Earthquake

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Akita Ujaku, "Takehisa Yumeji Memorial: Flowers of Grief" (1934)

Appendix 2: Nakamura Seiko (with comments by Shimamura Hōgetsu), "Yumeji's Young Days" (1962)

Appendix 3: Takehisa Yumeji, Preface to Yumeji Collection of Works: Spring Volume(1910)

Appendix 4: Onchi Kōshirō, "Critique on Yumeji Collection of Works: Spring Volume (1910)

Appendix 5: Takehisa Yumeji, Commentary on Illustrations in Yumeji Collection of Works: Summer Volume (1910)

Appendix 6: Takehisa Yumeji,"Sketches of the Tokyo Disaster" (1923).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295746845

029574684X

OCLC:

1112130048