Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

'This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature. Being Modern in Japan raises many issues about Japanese modernity and its contested meanings. Writers explore what it meant to be modern in Japan from the 1910s to the 1930s, but many subjects addressed are relevant to modernity elsewhere in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Certain aesthetic concerns in Japanese modern art occurred spontaneously, while others reflected the adoption of a common formal modernist language. Being modern in the Taisho and early Showa periods became integral to the society of the time. The practices and spaces of modernity changed in their meaning - or took on multiple meanings - during the 1920s, and by the early 1930s Japan was widely perceived by Japanese themselves as "modern".' - from back cover.

The book includes a chronology spanning 1860s to 1930s, a bibliography, and notes on contributors.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Australian Humanities Research Foundation (Sydney, Australia)

editor

John CLARK, 姜苦樂,

Elise K. TIPTON

Location code

REF.TIE

Language

English

Keyword

art history, modernism, modernity, Japan

Publication/Creation date

2000

No of pages

224

ISBN / ISSN

9781876749002

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

1 The Artists Start to Dance: The Changing Image of the Body in Art of the Taisho Period - Tsutomu MIZUSAWA, 水沢勉

2 Indices of Modernity: Changes in Popular Reprographic Representation - John CLARK, 姜苦樂

3 The Formation of the Audiences for Modern Art in Japan - Toshiharu OMUKA, 五十殿利治

4 On Rationalization and the National Lifestyle: Japanese Design of the 1920s and 1930s - Hiroshi KASHIWAGI, 柏木博

5 Japanese Modernism and Consumerism: Forging the New Artistic Field of 'Shogyo Bijutsu' (Commercial Art) - Gennifer WEISENFELD

6 The Cultural Life as Contested Space: Dwelling and Discourse in the 1920s - Jordan SAND

7 The Cafe: Contested Space of Modernity in Interwar Japan - Elise K. TIPTON

8 An Alternate Informant: Middle-Class Women and Mass Magazines in 1920s Japan - Barbara Hamill SATO

9 The Divided Appetite: 'Eating' in the Literature of the 1920s - Tomoko AOYAMA

10 The Past in the Present: War in Narratives of Modernity in the 1920s and 1930s - Sandra WILSON

11 Modern Selves and Modern Spaces:An Overview - Vera MACKIE

Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

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