The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367631246 / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

Opis

This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

 

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　

Michio Hayashi

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

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

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

Michael Lucken

4. Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan

Oleg Benesch

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

Mary Redfern

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

Alison J. Miller

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

Katharina Rode

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

Emiko Yamanashi

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

Ayelet Zohar

10. Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan

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

O autorze

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).