The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
- ISBN-10
- 1000477479
- ISBN-13
- 9781000477474
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-11-29
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. J. Miller
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-11-19
- 232 pages
- Paperback
- Routledge Research in Art History
Similar books
-
Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The arts of reinvention
By Morgan Pitelka, Alice Y. TsengAs an artistic, cultural and historical study of Japan's most important historic city, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese history, Asian history, the Edo and Meiji periods, art history, visual culture and ...
-
Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism
By Gennifer WeisenfeldCostumes, architecture, tourism propaganda, pottery, and a host of other sources provide the raw materials for Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism, and the incisive essays built from these sources will change readers' understanding of ...
-
Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
By Seth JacobowitzSeth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization ...
-
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
By Mark W. MacWilliams... Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal, and Fullmetal Alchemist to full-length movies, such as Hayao Miyazaki's Academy award ... Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation (1996), Gilles Poitras's The Anime Companion: What's ...
-
Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan
By Rosina BucklandIn Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901).
-
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
By Mark W. MacWilliamsWell suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they have become a powerful force in both the mediascape and the marketplace.This volume brings together an international group of scholars from ...
-
Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000
By J. Thomas RimerFrom this point onwards, Yanagihara developed his metallic-organic style, and his innovative work in turn inspired some foreign artists, including the Australian potter Les Blakebrough. 153. In Praise of Hands: Contemporary Crafts of ...
-
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
By Steven T. BrownSarah Walters, “Ghosting the Interface: Cyberspace and Spiritualism,” Science as Culture 6, no. 3 (1997): 414–43. 9. Walters, “Ghosting the Interface,” 437, 425. Also see Tom Gunning, “Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit ...
-
Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present
By Marco Bohr5 Komatsu Hiroshi and Ben Brewster, 'The Lumière Cinématographe and the Production of the Cinema in Japan in the Earliest Period', ... Politics and the Legend of Yamaguchi Yoshiko/Li Xianglan', in Sino-Japanese Transculturation, ed.
-
Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
By Norman Bryson, Joshua S. Mostow, Maribeth GraybillIn this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work.