Michael Lucken Anne Bayard-Sakai Emmanuel Lozerand
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting 'postwar' to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar period and treat it as a network of time periods from the contemporary period.
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting 'postwar' to be the years direct...
Michael Lucken Anne Bayard-Sakai Emmanuel Lozerand
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a network of historical time frames from the modern period, and connect these time capsules to the war to which they are inextricably linked. The books strength is in its very interdisciplinary approach to examining postwar Japan and as such it includes chapters centred on subjects as diverse as...
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years dir...
The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts. Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres--painting, film, photography, and animation--Lucken portrays the range of strategies that...
The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of o...
