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The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity book cover

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The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan Negotiating the Transition to Modernity

Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller Copyright 2022
216 Pages 11 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 Color & 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
 

Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity

Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller

  1. Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space　

    2. Michio Hayashi

  2. Modernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese Calligraphy

    3. Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

  3. Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial Perspective

    4. Michael Lucken

  4. Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan

    5. Oleg Benesch

  5. Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan

    6. Mary Redfern

  6. Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan

    7. Alison J. Miller

  7. Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese Painting

    8. Katharina Rode

  8. Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in Japan

    9. Emiko Yamanashi

  9. Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaidō

    10. Ayelet Zohar

  10. Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan

    11. Chinghsin Wu

  11. Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire’s Flâneur and Walter Benjamin’s Porosity

Evelyn Schulz

Biography

Ayelet Zohar is Senior Lecturer of History of Art at Tel Aviv University.

Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee).

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