The Aesthetics of Strangeness : : Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan / / W. Puck Brecher.
Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, conc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 26 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Contexts of Strangeness
- Chapter 1. Strange Interpretations
- Chapter 2. Contexts of Strangeness in Seventeenth-Century Japan
- Part II. Discourses on Difference in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 3. Strange Tastes Cultural Eccentricity and Its Vanguard
- Chapter 4. Strange Thoughts: A Confluence of Intellectual Heterodoxies
- Chapter 5. Eccentrics of Recent Times and Social Value Biography Reinvents the Eccentric
- Part III. Finishers and Failures of the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 6. Strangeness in the Early Nineteenth Century Commercialism, Conservatism, and Diffusion
- Chapter 7. Reevaluating Strangeness in Late Tokugawa
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author