The visual culture of Meiji Japan: negotiating the transition to modernity

"This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan's transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negoti...

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Corporate Author: The IAJS Thematic Conference "The West in Japanese Imagination/Japan in Western Imagination: 150 Years to the Meiji Restoration", Tel Aviv (Author)
Other Authors: Zohar, Ayelet (Editor) , Miller, Alison J. (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: New York London Routledge 2022
Series:Routledge research in art history
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1761536214inh.htm
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Author Notes:edited by Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller
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Summary:"This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan's transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies"--
Item Description:"... conference, titled "The West in Japanese Imagination/Japan in Western Imagination: 150 Years to the Meiji Restoration", held in December 2018 at Tel Aviv University ..." (Acknowledgements)
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780367612849
9780367631246