Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field / / ed. by Joshua S. Mostow, Maribeth Graybill, Norman Bryson.

In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art,&qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 108 illus., 8 in color
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
1. Introduction --
2. Gender in Japanese Art --
3. The Image of Women in Battle Scenes: “Sexually” Imprinted Bodies --
4. The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire --
5. Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama, and Art --
6.Westernizing Bodies: Women, Art, and Power in Meiji Yāga --
7. Icons of Femininity: Japanese National Painting and the Paradox of Modernity --
8. Images of Women in National Art Exhibitions during the Korean Colonial Period --
9. The Otherness of Women in the Avant-Garde Film Woman in the Dunes --
10. Gender in Contemporary Japanese Art --
11. Busty Battlin’ Babes: The Evolution of the Shōjo in 1990s Visual Culture --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Contributors --
Index
Summary:In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art," which introduced feminist theory to Japanese art. This is followed by a closer look at a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the production of bijin (beautiful women) prints within the world of Edo-period advertising. A rare homoerotic picture-book is used to extrapolate the "grammar of desire" as represented in late seventeenth-century Edo. In the modern period, contributors consider the introduction to Meiji Japan of the Western nude and oil-painting and examine Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the role of one of its famous artists. The book then shifts its focus to an examination of paintings produced for the Japanese-sponsored annual salons held in colonial Korea. The postwar period comes under scrutiny in a study of the novel Woman in the Dunes and its film adaptation. The critical discourse that surrounded women artists of the late twentieth-century--the "Super Girls of Art"--is analyzed, followed by a consideration of gender ambiguity and cross-gender identification in contemporary anime and manga. Contributors: Grunhild Borggreen, Norman Bryson, Chino Kaori, Doris Croissant, Ikeda Shinobu, Kim Hye-shin, Chigusa Kimura-Steven, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, David Pollack.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780824841577
9783110649772
9783110564143
9783110663259
DOI:10.1515/9780824841577
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joshua S. Mostow, Maribeth Graybill, Norman Bryson.