Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts : : From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao / / Michael Lucken.
The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 40 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. A Historical Construction
- 1. Copycat Japan
- 2. The West and the Invention of Creation
- 3. The Denial, Rejection, and Sublimation of Imitation
- 4. No Poaching
- 5. Seen from Japan
- 6. The Logic of Reflection in Nakai Masakazu
- PART II. A New Place for Imitation
- 7. Kishida Ryūsei's Portraits of Reiko, or, How Can Ghosts 75 Be at Work?
- 8. Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru , or, the Impossibility of Metaphor
- 9. Araki Nobuyoshi's Sentimental Journey-Winter , or, 137 Eternal Bones
- 10. Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away , or, the Adventure of 175 the Obliques
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index