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...
Uniform Title: | Meiji kokka to kindai bijutsu.
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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 |
Contents:
- Meiji art and art administration
- Art and social class
- Art and economics
- The formation of academic discipline of art history and its development
- "Painting" and Kanji
- Artistic names and ideal worldviews
- Shajitsu, Shashin, and Shasei
- "History" and "man"
- The end of the Kano school
- The formation of the historical evaluation of Kano Hōgai
- The formation of the historical evaluation of Kawanabe Kyōsai.