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Author Zohar, Ayelet

Title The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (217 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Art History Ser
Routledge Research in Art History Ser
Contents Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents Page -- Figures Page -- Contributors Page -- Acknowledgments Page -- Introduction: In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity -- 1 Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space -- 2 Meiji Calligraphy Between Eurocentric and Sinocentric Modernizations -- 3 Classical Greece in Japan: Why Does It Matter? A Postcolonial Perspective -- 4 Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan
5 Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the Presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan -- 6 Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan -- 7 Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō's Strive for Modern Japanese Painting -- 8 Mural Paintings in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western-Style Public Buildings in Japan -- 9 Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaidō -- 10 Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan
11 Exploring Tokyo's Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū's Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914), With Charles Baudelaire's Flâneur and Walter Benjamin's and Asja Lacis' Porosity -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Alison J
ISBN 9781000477467
1000477460