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Obtaining images : art, production and display in Edo Japan
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ISBN: 9781861898142 1861898142 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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Tokyo 1955-1970 : a new avant-garde
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ISBN: 9780870708343 0870708341 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Museum of Modern Art

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Cipango : Japon-Occident, l'histoire d'une rencontre
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ISBN: 9782752905390 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : Phébus,

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L'histoire illustrée de la rencontre entre le Japon et l'Occident permet de découvrir les liens et les échanges tant dans les disciplines scientifiques et techniques qu'artistiques, pour une admiration réciproque.


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Deco Japan : Shaping art & culture, 1920-1945
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ISBN: 0883971577 9780883971574 Year: 2012 Publisher: Alexandria Art Services International

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"The vitality of urban Japan in the 1920s and 1930s is expressed through works of art and visual culture that may be grouped under the rubric of art deco. Using nearly 200 objects ranging from matchbook labels to grand paintings, and focusing on works exhibited in Japan's national exhibitions, Deco Japan traces a chapter in Japanese modernism that signals simultaneously the nation's claims to a unique history and its cosmopolitanism. Major themes include both the rise of moga, or modern girl, a barometer of social freedom and cultural realignment, and nationalism, manifest in imperial glory and military strength."--Cover flap.


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Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000
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ISBN: 0824834410 0824835824 0824861027 9780824834418 9780824835828 9780824861025 0824871235 Year: 2012 Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press

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Research outside Japan on the history and significance of the Japanese visual arts since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868) has been, with the exception of writings on modern and contemporary woodblock prints, a relatively unexplored area of inquiry. In recent years, however, the subject has begun to attract wide interest. As is evident from this volume, this period of roughly a century and a half produced an outpouring of art created in a bewildering number of genres and spanning a wide range of aims and accomplishments. Since Meiji is the first sustained effort in English to discuss in any depth a time when Japan, eager to join in the larger cultural developments in Europe and the U.S., went through a visual revolution. Indeed, this study of the visual arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries suggests a fresh history of modern Japanese culture—one that until now has not been widely visible or thoroughly analyzed outside that country.In this extensive collection, which includes some 190 black-and-white and color reproductions, scholars from Japan, Europe, Australia, and America explore an impressive array of subjects: painting, sculpture, prints, fashion design, crafts, and gardens. The works discussed range from early Meiji attempts to create art that referenced Western styles to postwar and contemporary avant-garde experiments. There are, in addition, substantive investigations of the cultural and intellectual background that helped stimulate the creation of new and shifting art forms, including essays on the invention of a modern artistic vocabulary in the Japanese language and the history of art criticism in Japan, as well as an extensive account of the career and significance of perhaps the best-known Japanese figure concerned with the visual arts of his period, Okakura Tenshin (1862–1913), whose Book of Tea is still widely read today.Taken together, the essays in this volume allow readers to connect ideas and images, thus bringing to light larger trends in the Japanese visual arts that have made possible the vitality, range, and striking achievements created during this turbulent and lively period


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The brittle decade : visualizing Japan in the 1930s
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ISBN: 9780878467693 0878467696 Year: 2012 Publisher: Boston New York, N.Y. MFA Publications Distributed by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

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Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan's big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafés and teahouses, movie theaters and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design and fashion overshadowed traditional arts as Japan strove to take its place in a cosmopolitan world. The Brittle Years examines the different ways in which designers and artists visualized what it meant to be modern in Japan in the years leading up to World War II. Its 160 full-color illustrations of paintings, textiles and graphic arts are astonishing not only for their great visual impact but also for the insight they provide into a rapidly transforming nation. Among the more surprising images are kimonos bearing patterns of tanks or futuristic cityscapes, paintings of fashionable Japanese women with bobbed hair in western dress and handbills of factory and agricultural workers joined in solidarity. Essays by leading experts on Japanese art and history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning author John W. Dower, elucidate the many tensions within Japanese society and show how and why such images of power, progress, and beauty helped the nation celebrate and divert modernity to new purposes during these brittle years.


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Ghosts and spirits from the Tikotin Museum of Japanese art : Felix Tikotin : a life devoted to Japanese art
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ISBN: 9789087281809 9087281803 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Leiden Publications

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