Since Meiji : Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000

by Rimer, J. Thomas; McCallum, Toshiko

• ISBN13: 9780824834418
• ISBN10: 0824834410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

The Japanese visual arts since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868) have produced an outpouring of art created in a bewildering number of genres and spanning a wide range of aims and accomplishments. Since Meiji is the first sustained effort in English to discuss in any depth a time when Japan, eager to join in the larger cultural developments in Europe and the U.S., went through a visual revolution. Indeed, this study of the visual arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries suggests a fresh history of modern Japanese culture-one that until now has not been widely visible or thoroughly analyzed outside that country. In this extensive collection, which includes more than 150 black-and-white and color reproductions, scholars from Japan, Europe, Australia, and America explore an impressive array of subjects: painting, sculpture, prints, fashion design, crafts, and gardens.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Painting and the Allied Arts: From Meiji to the Present
Western-Style Painting: Four Stages of Acceptance	p. 19
Japanese Painting from Edo to Meiji: Rhetoric and Reality	p. 34
The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period	p. 66
Senso Sakusen Kirokuga: Seeing Japans War Documentary Painting as a Public Monument	p. 99
From Resplendent Signs to Heavy Hands: Japanese Painting in War and Defeat, 1937-1952	p. 124
How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the "Museum": An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s	p. 144
Fashion Altars, Performance Factors, and Pop Cells: Transforming Contemporary Japanese Art, One Body at a Time	p. 168
Japanese Art of the Period in Its Cultural Context
The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan	p. 193
Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism	p. 212
Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years	p. 257
Individual Forms of Expression
Sculpture	p. 283
Can Architecture Be Both Modern and "Japanese"? The Expression of Japanese Cultural Identity through Architectural Practice from 1850 to the Present	p. 315
The Modern Japanese Garden	p. 340
Japanese Prints 1868-2008	p. 361
Aspects of Twentieth-Century Crafts: The New Craft and Mingei Movements	p. 408
Japanese Calligraphy since 1868	p. 445
Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Cultural and Aesthetic Transformations of Fashion in Modern Japan	p. 471
Contributors	p. 497
Index	p. 501
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