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The Artist as Professional in Japan
"The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into the background."--BOOK JACKET.
Taiga’s True Views
This lavishly illustrated book on one of Japan's preeminent painters focuses on the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places.
Worlds Seen and Imagined
Features examples from all styles of Japanese screen painting, ranging from monochrome ink paintings to richly coloured scenes with gold backgrounds
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre–World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan’s modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favor of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the sudd...
The Tomishige Studio and the Development of Domestic Commercial Photography in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
The first half of my project focuses on the history of the studio. Chapter One describes the cultural context of the period, highlighting in particular the symbolic role photography played as an instrument of modernization. Chapters Two and Three use primary documents and existing Japanese language studies to examine the establishment of the Tomishige Studio, to position the studio's history within the larger sphere of nineteenth-century Japanese commercial photography, and to illustrate typical studio practices and procedures.
Parting the Mists
In Parting the Mists, Aida Yuen Wong makes a convincing argument that the forging of a national tradition in modern China was frequently pursued in association with rather than in rejection of Japan. The focus of her book is on Japan’s integral role in the invention of "national-style painting," or guohua, in early-twentieth-century China. Guohua, referring to brush paintings on traditional formats, is often misconstrued as a residual conservatism from the dynastic age that barricaded itself within classical traditions. Wong places this art form at the forefront of cross-cultural exchange. Notable proponents of guohua (e.g., Chen Hengke, Jin Cheng, Fu Baoshi, and Gao Jianfu) are discussed ...
Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 explores the genesis and historical development of autonomy and its evolving relationship with public authority in early modern and modern Japan.
