Modernities of Japanese Art

'This book contains foundational studies of various modernities in Japanese art published since 1986 by John Clark. His articles address modern Japanese print history, modern Japanese aesthetics, the history of Japanese ‘Western-style’ painting including the avant-garde, the relation of art and foreign aggression, and the post World War II development of critical art, as well as post-modernism. The basis for these essays is ongoing empirical research in Japanese sources over many visits to Japan since 1969, with at the same time a theoretical rigour derived from semiotics applied to traditional ‘Japanese-style’ painting and other subjects. Some of these essays which were previously published in French and Japanese appear here in English for the first time.' - from back cover.

This book includes list of illustrations, endnotes, list of names and special terms with characters, index and bibliography.

Access level

Onsite

author

John CLARK, 姜苦樂

publisher

Brill (Leiden, Netherlands)

Location code

REF.CLJ

Language

English

Keyword

art history, modernity, Japan

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

343

ISBN / ISSN

9789004236899

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Section 1: Etchings and Reprographics

Chapter 1: Japanese Etchings

Chapter 2: Late Meiji Reprographics and the Early Modern

Chapter 3: Some Later Prints

Section 2: Early Yoga

Chapter 4: Charles Wirgman

Chapter 5: Modernity in Japanese Painting

Section 3: Nihonga

Chapter 6: Modernism and Traditional Japanese-style Painting

Chapter 7: Neo-Traditional Art in the New North-South Context, with Examples from Japan and Thailand

Section 4: Aesthetic Ideology

Chapter 8: Okakura Tenshin (Kakuzo) and Aesthetic Nationalism

Chapter 9: Kuki Shuzo: Sovereign Domains: The Structure of 'Iki'

Section 5: Transitions in Taisho Yoga

Chapter 10: Impressionism in Japan: the Indirectness of Reception

Chapter 11: The Mainstream of Modernity

Section 6: Surrealism

Chapter 12: Surrealism in Japan

Chapter 13: Dilemmas of Selfhood: Public and Private Discourses of Japanese Surrealism in the 1930s

Section 7: The Place of History and the Other

Chapter 14: Artists and The State: The Image of China

Chapter 15: Modernities, Histories: the Japanese Case

Section 8: Critical Modernity and Post-Modernism

Chapter 16: Masterpieces: Surface and Subterranean Monuments in Modern Japanese Art

Chapter 17: Postmodernism in Japan: The Conditions for Post-Modernity in Japanese Art of the 1980s

Section 9: Japanese Modernity in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 18: Yoga in Japan: Model or Exception?

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