The book, edited by Yuko Kikuchi, contains an anthology of essays written about the Taiwanese art movement in the mid-1990s. According to the book cover, the nine essays included 'present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal and material culture and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the "discovery" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of
Onsite
English
art history,  Taiwan,  art theory
2007
285
9780824830502
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anthology
Chapter 1 — Colonial Encounters: Japanese Travel Writing on Colonial Taiwan
Chapter 2 — The Beauty of the Untamed: Exploration and Travel in Colonial Taiwanese Landscape Painting
Chapter 3 — Japanese Landscape Painting and Taiwan: Modernity, Colonialism, and National Identity
Chapter 4 — The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan
Chapter 5 — The Changing Representation of Women in Modern Japanese Paintings
Chapter 6 — Modernity, Power, and Gender: Images of Women by Taiwanese Female Artists under Japanese Rule
- LAI Mingzhu, 賴明珠
Chapter 7 — Taiwanese in Japanese Period Architecture in Taiwan
Chapter 8 — Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artefacts: Entangled Images of Colonisation and Modernisation
Chapter 9 — Refracted Colonial Modernity: Vernacularism in the Development of Modern Taiwanese Crafts
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