Modern Japanese art and the Meiji state : the politics of beauty / Dōshin Satō ; translated by Hiroshi Nara.

"This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870s and 1880s, artists, government administrators, and others in Japan encountered the Western 'system of the arts' for th...

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Uniform Title:Meiji kokka to kindai bijutsu. English
Main Author: Satō, Dōshin
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Published: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2011], ©2011.
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Physical Description:viii, 365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Format: Book

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