Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters /
How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, the author, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty. The firs...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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Tokyo, Japan :
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,
2021.
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the English edition
- Part 1. Methods of Japanese Art. chapter 1. The character of Japanese aesthetics
- chapter 2. Object and form
- chapter 3. Forms of seeing, East and West
- chapter 4. The "trailing bough" motif
- chapter 5. The art of the journey
- chapter 6. The principle of ornamentation
- Part II. East-West Encounters. chapter 7. East and West in Meiji painting
- chapter 8. The avant-garde in Japanese art
- chapter 9. Japanese academism
- chapter 10. Some problems of Japonisme
- Part III. Passing Beauty, Returning Memory. chapter 11. The aesthetics of transition: the four seasons and the Japanese sense of beauty
- chapter 12. "The color of the flowers": symphonies of image and word
- chapter 13. The heritage of memory: intangible culture as Japanese tradition
- Afterword
- Afterword to the expanded edition
- Original publication details.