Modern Japanese art and the Meiji state : the politics of beauty / Dōshin Satō ; translated by Hiroshi Nara.
Author(s): Satō, Dōshin
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Modern Japanese art and the Meiji state : the politics of beauty
- Author(s)
- Satō, Dōshin
- Publisher
- Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2011.
- Collation
- viii, 365 p. : ill. (some col.)
28 cm. - Summary
- "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 the first time, as objects and information from Japan reached European and American audiences following the collapse of the shogun's regime. Under pressure to exhibit and sell its artistic products abroad, Japan's new Meiji government came face-to-face with the need to create European-style art schools, museums, government-sponsored exhibitions, and artifact preservation policies -- and even to establish Japanese words for 'art, ' 'painting, ' 'artist, ' and 'sculpture.' Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State represents nothing less than a reconceptualization of the field of Japanese art history. It exposes the politics through which the words, categories, and values that still structure our understanding of the field came to be while revealing the historicity of Western and non-Western art history."--Publisher's description.
- ISBN
- 9781606060599
- Dewey Class
- 709.52
- 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.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art and state -- Japan.
Art, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. - BRN
- 8066
Notes
- Translated from the Japanese.
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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