Since Meiji : : Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000 / / ed. by J. Thomas Rimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Addiss, Stephen,; Ajioka, Chiaki,; Clark, John,; Conant, Ellen P.,; Hirayama, Mikiko,; Marra, Michael F.,; Reynolds, Jonathan M.,; Rimer, Thomas J.,; Seo, Audrey Yoshiko,; Shiner, Eric C.,; Smith, Lawrence,; Tanaka, Shūji,; Tomii, Reiko,; Tsuruya, Mayu,; Watanabe, Toshio,; Weisenfeld, Gennifer,; Winther-Tamaki, Bert,; Yamanashi, Emiko,
• HerausgeberIn: Rimer, J. Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.) :; 164 illus., 30 in color

Research outside Japan on the history and significance of the Japanese visual arts since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868) has been, with the exception of writings on modern and contemporary woodblock prints, a relatively unexplored area of inquiry. In recent years, however, the subject has b...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Painting and the Allied Arts: From Meiji to the Present
• 1. Western-Style Painting: Four Stages of Acceptance
• 2. Japanese Painting from Edo to Meiji: Rhetoric and Reality
• 3. The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period
• 4. Sensō Sakusen Kirokuga: Seeing Japan's War Documentary Painting as a Public Monument
• 5. From Resplendent Signs to Heavy Hands: Japanese Painting in War and Defeat, 1937-1952
• 6. How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the "Museum": An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s
• 7. Fashion Altars, Performance Factors, and Pop Cells: Transforming Contemporary Japanese Art, One Body at a Time
• II. Japanese Art of the Period in Its Cultural Context
• 8. The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan
• 9. Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism
• 10. Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years
• III. Individual Forms of Expression
• 11. Sculpture
• 12. Can Architecture Be Both Modern and "Japanese"? The Expression of Japanese Cultural Identity through Architectural Practice from 1850 to the Present
• 13. The Modern Japanese Garden
• 14. Japanese Prints 1868-2008
• 15. Aspects of Twentieth-Century Crafts: The New Craft and Mingei Movements
• 16. Japanese Calligraphy since 1868
• 17. Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Cultural and Aesthetic Transformations of Fashion in Modern Japan
• Contributors
• Index