Refracted Modernity : : Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan / / ed. by Yuko Kikuchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Fu, Chao-Ching,; Hu, Chia-Yu,; Kikuchi, Yuko,; Kojima, Kaoru,; Lai, Ming-Chu,; Liao, Hsin-Tien,; Shimazu, Naoko,; Watanabe, Toshio,; Yen, Chuan-Ying,
• HerausgeberIn: Kikuchi, Yuko,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 106 illus.

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene, yet studies on modern Taiwanese art published outside of Taiwan are scarce. The nine essays collected here present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal material culture, and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the "discovery" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of nangoku (southern country); the problematic idea of "local color," which was imposed by Japanese, and its relation to the "nativism" that was embraced by Taiwanese; the gendered modernity exemplified in the representation of Chinese/Taiwanese women; and the development of Taiwanese artifacts and crafts from colonial to postcolonial times, from their discovery, estheticization, and industrialization to their commodification by both the colonizers and the colonized.Contributors: Chao-Ching Fu, Chia-yu Hu, Yuko Kikuchi, Kaoru Kojima, Ming-chu Lai, Hsin-tien Liao, Naoko Shimazu, Toshio Watanabe, Chuan-ying Yen.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part 1. Images of Taiwan and the Discovery of the Taiwanese Landscape -- 1. Colonial Encounters -- 2. The Beauty of the Untamed -- 3. Japanese Landscape Painting and Taiwan -- 4. The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan -- Part 2. Images by and about Women -- 5. The Changing Representation of Women in Modern Japanese Paintings -- 6. Modernity, Power, and Gender -- Part 3. Construction of Taiwan's Vernacular Landscape -- 7. Taiwaneseness in Japanese Period Architecture in Taiwan -- 8. Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artifacts -- 9. Refracted Colonial Modernity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index