Maximum embodiment : yōga, the western painting of Japan, 1912-1955

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Maximum Embodiment presents a compelling thesis articulating the historical character of Yoga, literally the "Western painting" of Japan. The term designates what was arguably the most important movement in modern Japanese art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Perhap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winther-Tamaki, Bert, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012].
Subjects:
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
1900-1999
Painting, Japanese > Western style.
Painting, Japanese > 20th century.
Yōga (Japanese painting styles)
ART > History > General.
ART > Asian.
Painting, Japanese
Painting, Japanese > Western style
Yōga > Malerei
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Yōga, the Intercultural Art of Embodiment and Disembodiment
  • Chapter 1 Strong Flesh at the Ready: Body and Self in Self-Portraiture
  • Chapter 2 Accelerating the Heartbeat: Erotic Nationalism and the Japanese Nude
  • Chapter 3 Creating Oriental Beauty: Chinese Passages to Imperial Yōga
  • Chapter 4 The Feast of Fierce Massacre: Maximum Disembodiment
  • Epilogue The Collapse of Yōga Embodiment

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