Bachelor Japanists : Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities / Christopher Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Christopher, author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Japanese.

East and West.

Masculinity in art.

Masculinity in literature.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s.Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in turn-of-the-century Boston; and the mid-twentieth-century circles of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a groundbreaking integration of well-known and forgotten episodes and personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional scholarly investments in the heroism of avant-garde accomplishment and ideals of cultural authenticity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on Names and Terms

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Originating Japanism: Fin-de-Siècle Paris

2. Bachelor Brahmins: Turn-of-the-Century Boston

3. Sublimation and Eccentricity in the Art of Mark Tobey: Seattle at Midcentury

Conclusion: On the End of Japanism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231542760

0231542763

OCLC:

979739691