1st Edition
Recovering the Orient Artists, Scholars, Appropriations
376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Much recent writing about Asian societies and Asian Histories adopts a homogenising vision of humanity. It views the definition of cultural difference as an 'Orientalist' project serving colonial or neo-colonial purposes. This unusual collection of essays, written by leading specialists in a range of disciplines. re-appraises and expands the 'Orientalism' debate. Several authors examine the ways... Read more
Debating Said; Japanese art, Monet and the formation of Impressionism - an inquiry into some conditions of cultural exchange and appropriation in later 19th-century European art; Debussy and the Orient; Raffles and Daniell - making the images fit; Chinese space in Chinese painting; landscape in early Java; text as performance - tragedy in Japanese drama; the emergence of the printed book in Japan - a comparative approach; popular art and the Javanese tradition; who decides and who speaks? Shutaisei and the West in postwar Japan; aboard two ships - Western assumptions on medium and genre in Malay oral and written traditions; extravagant art and Balinese ritual. (Part contents).
Biography
Professor Andrew Gerstle is Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His primary research is Japanese drama. Dr Anthony Milner is Director of the Australian-Asian Perceptions Project of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has taught at the Australian National University, the University of Kent at Canterbury, and Cornell University.
