A glimpse at the art of Japan / by James Jackson Jarves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Japanese.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Rutland, VT ; Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1876, when many considered Japanese art a mere curiosity, A Glimpse at the Art of Japan presents Jarves remarkable examination of the problems of Japanese aesthetics, offering a penetrating analysis of the historical, religious, and social influences on the development of art in Japan. Supporting the thesis that art gives true expression to the aspirations of a nation, Jarves discusses such issues as: the influence of Shintoism and Buddhism on Japanese art; Buddhism as the ""nursery of art""; the Japanese aesthetic ideal and the Grecian form; the literature and p

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; SECTION I: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MATERIAL BASIS AND HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF THE ART OF JAPAN; Art Inquiry; Office of Art; A New World; Japan or Nipon; New Ideals and New Rules; A new lesson; Preparation needed for Oriental Art; The True Artistic Instinct; Local Stamp of European Schools; What is Fatal to Artistic Thought; What not to look for in Japanese Art; Japanese Ideal; Ideal Ugliness; How their Gods and Heroes impress; How Grecian Forms impress the Japanese; A Japanese Belle; Architecture Unknown

Temple held second to the TombThe Fine Arts in Japan; New Sensations; Favorable Conditions of Japan; Bear Worship; Japanese Isolation and Independence; Object of Japanese Polity; Genealogies of the Mikados and Deities; Religious Toleration; No Ritual Monopolism; The Barriers of Exclusion thrown down, and why; The Elements of Japanese Art; Land of Great Peace; Japanese Morals and Habits; Criminal Statistics; Kamism, or Shintôism; Moral Significance of Kamism; Fostered Sympathy with Nature; How Art affects the Religious Temperament; Introduction of Buddhism and Effect on Kamism

Kirin and Koma-InowDestruction of Idols; Introduction of Doctrines of Confucius from China; Isolation of Japan favored its Special Artistic and Intellectual Development; Intuition and Realism as Bases of Art; Recognition of the Ideal; Material and Ideal Art; Nothing Unclean except by Man's own Will; European Art Scientific, Japanese Idealistic in Basis; Aryan and Turanian Branches of the Human Family; Supremacy Relative, not Positive; The One Thing Certain; SECTION II: THE RELIGIOUS ART OF JAPAN. - ITS DIVINITIES, MYTHS, AND HEROES; The Religious Motive the Chief Inspiration of Art

Idealism a Complex PhenomenonNational Ideals; No Race without its Divine Intuitions; Art an Apotheosis of Ugliness as well as Beauty; The General Desire of Art; Mind takes Two Forms of Consciousness; Two Ways of producing Art; The Relation of Beauty to Art; Truth of Idea, and Fact; The Ideals of Ugliness; Kali, the Goddess of Destruction; The Christian God; The Divinities of all Races are the Measures of their Moral and æsthetic Limitations; The Christian Devil; Jewish Jehovah; The Fetiehism of Science; Occult Problems of Life; The Highest Use Oriental Art makes of the Human Figure

The Various BuddhasChrist as an Art-motive; The School of the Nude in Japan; Shintôism Unfavorable, Buddhism Favorable to Art; Costume of both Sexes and various Ranks of People; Japanese Ideas of Modesty; The Dignity of Clothing, etc; Character and Skill as shown in Sculpture; Key-note to Japanese Compositions; Household Deities; Ben-zai-ten-njo, the Japanese Madonna, and Quamon, Queen of Heaven; The People's Deities as elected or revealed of Themselves; Spirits, Goud and Bad, in Art; Yoshiaki, 'he Famous Sword-maker; Business of the Domestic Deities; Yebis, the Provider of Daily Food, etc

Hotei, the Deity of Contentment in Poverty

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4629-0880-2