Visual Culture of Meiji Japan

Negotiating the Transition to Modernity

AvAyelet Zohar,Alison J. Miller

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-25
Mått:174 x 246 x 13 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Research in Art History
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367631246

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Ayelet Zohar is Senior Lecturer of History of Art at Tel Aviv University.Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji HybridityAyelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space Michio Hayashi Modernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese CalligraphyEugenia Bogdanova-Kummer Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial PerspectiveMichael Lucken Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial JapanOleg Benesch Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan Mary Redfern Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji JapanAlison J. Miller Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese PaintingKatharina Rode Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in JapanEmiko Yamanashi Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial HokkaidōAyelet Zohar Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji JapanChinghsin Wu Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire’s Flâneur and Walter Benjamin’s Porosity Evelyn Schulz