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"This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895-1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist's major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals"--

Arts, Japanese --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Criticism and interpretation --- Koga, Harue, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties). Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art. As Japan worked to establish its place in the world, it actively presented itself as an artistic nation based on these ideals of feminine beauty. The book explores this exemplary figure for modern Japanese aesthetics and analyzes how the deceptively ordinary image of the beautiful Japanese woman--an iconic image that persists to this day--was cultivated as a "national treasure," synonymous with Japanese culture.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. --- Arts, Japanese --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature

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"Japon grec. Accolés, ces deux mots suscitent un sentiment d'étrangeté, une impression de chimère, Moitié Apollon, moitié samouraï, moitié Vénus, moitié geisha, dans un décor qui serait à la fois blanc et bleu comme les Cyclades, vert profond et rouge cinabre comme les sanctuaires shintô. Comment deux pays aussi distants peuvent-ils être rapprochés pour former une image cohérente ? " L'ouvrage de Michael Lucken permet de suivre la pénétration diffuse de la culture grecque classique dans les arcanes de la littérature, de la philosophie, de l'architecture et des arts japonais contemporains. Entre la fin du XIXe siècle et 1945, le Japon s'est pris d'une véritable passion pour la Grèce antique. La sculpture bouddhique est revisitée à la lumière du corps grec, le théâtre nô est rapproché de la tragédie et l'architecture des banques réinterprète le temple classique ! Aujourd'hui encore, bien des mangas et des dessins animés s'inspirent des dieux et héros de l'Antiquité. La façon dont le Japon — qui n'a jamais eu de contact direct avec la Grèce antique— a intégré cet héritage fournit un formidable modèle pour penser le grand problème de l'appropriation des cultures

Arts --- Esthétique comparée. --- Civilisation comparée. --- Philosophie comparée. --- Influence grecque. --- Japon --- Civilisation --- Arts, Japanese --- Esthétique comparée. --- Civilisation comparée. --- Philosophie comparée. --- Art, Japanese --- Japan --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- Influence --- Greek influences --- Greece --- --Japon --- --Influence hellénistique --- --Art --- --1868- , --- Civilization - Influence --- Civilization - Greek influences --- Influence hellénistique --- Art --- Influence.