Aesthetic Life : : Beauty and Art in Modern Japan / / Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit.
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 400 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2019. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ;
400. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan. |
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Table of Contents:
- All too aesthetically: the Bijin in the era of Japonisme
- "Fair Japan": art, war, and the Bijin at the Saint Louis World's Fair, 1904
- True Bijin: the debate on truth and beauty
- Bijin graphic: illustrated magazines and the popular ideology of beauty
- "Short-lived beauty": illustration and the bijin heroines of literary realism
- Living works of art: Soseki's aesthetic heroines
- Bijinga: the Nihonga genre and the fashioning of material beauty.