Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000 9780824861025

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Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Painting and the Allied Arts: From Meiji to the Present
1. Western-Style Painting: Four Stages of Acceptance
2. Japanese Painting from Edo to Meiji: Rhetoric and Reality
3. The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period
4. Sensō Sakusen Kirokuga: Seeing Japan’s War Documentary Painting as a Public Monument
5. From Resplendent Signs to Heavy Hands: Japanese Painting in War and Defeat, 1937–1952
6. How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the “Museum”: An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s
7. Fashion Altars, Performance Factors, and Pop Cells: Transforming Contemporary Japanese Art, One Body at a Time
II. Japanese Art of the Period in Its Cultural Context
8. The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan
9. Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism
10. Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years
III. Individual Forms of Expression
11. Sculpture
12. Can Architecture Be Both Modern and “Japanese”? The Expression of Japanese Cultural Identity through Architectural Practice from 1850 to the Present
13. The Modern Japanese Garden
14. Japanese Prints 1868–2008
15. Aspects of Twentieth-Century Crafts: The New Craft and Mingei Movements
16. Japanese Calligraphy since 1868
17. Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Cultural and Aesthetic Transformations of Fashion in Modern Japan
Contributors
Index

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