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Author Lippit, Miya Elise Mizuta. author.

Title Aesthetic Life Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (0 p.)
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs
Harvard East Asian monographs.
Contents Intro -- AESTHETIC LIFE: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrationsix -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: On First Becoming a Painting -- 1.All Too Aesthetically: The Bijin in the Era of Japonisme -- 2. " Fair Japan": Art, War, and the Bijin at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 -- 3. True Bijin: The Debate on Truth and Beauty -- 4. Bijin Graphic: Illustrated Magazines and the Popular Ideology of Beauty -- 5. " Short-Lived Beauty": Illustration and the Bijin Heroines of Literary Realism -- 6. Living Works of Art: Soseki's Aesthetic Heroines
7. Bijinga: The Nihonga Genre and the Fashioning of Material Beauty -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits (Chapter and Bibliography Frontispieces) -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs
Summary "This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties). Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art. As Japan worked to establish its place in the world, it actively presented itself as an artistic nation based on these ideals of feminine beauty. The book explores this exemplary figure for modern Japanese aesthetics and analyzes how the deceptively ordinary image of the beautiful Japanese woman--an iconic image that persists to this day--was cultivated as a "national treasure," synonymous with Japanese culture." -- Publisher's description
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Japan
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
Arts, Japanese -- 1868-
Aesthetics, Japanese -- 19th century.
Aesthetics, Japanese -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Aesthetics, Japanese
Arts, Japanese
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature
Identität Motiv
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Loyalität Motiv
Japan
Taiwan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1684175755
9781684175758