The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan -

The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan

Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-63124-6 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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.

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).

Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity

Ayelet 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 Calligraphy
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer




Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial Perspective
Michael Lucken


Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan
Oleg 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 Japan
Alison J. Miller




Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese Painting
Katharina Rode


Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in Japan
Emiko Yamanashi




Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaidō
Ayelet Zohar


Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan
Chinghsin 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo 11 Halftones, color; 55 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, color; 55 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-367-63124-5 / 0367631245
ISBN-13 978-0-367-63124-6 / 9780367631246
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