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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Borggreen, Gunhild,; Bryson, Norman,; Croissant, Doris,; Hyeshin, Kim,; Kaori, Chino,; Kimura-Steven, Chigusa,; Mostow, Joshua S.,; Orbaugh, Sharalyn,; Pollack, David,; Shinobu, Ikeda,
• HerausgeberIn: Bryson, Norman,; Graybill, Maribeth,; Mostow, Joshua S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 108 illus., 8 in color

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.

Table of Contents

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