Refracted Modernity - Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan (Hardcover)

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene, yet studies on modern Taiwanese art published outside of Taiwan are scarce. The nine essays collected here present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal material culture, and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the ""discovery"" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of nangoku (southern country); the problematic idea of ""local color,"" which was imposed by Japanese, and its relation to the ""nativism"" that was embraced by Taiwanese; the gendered modernity exemplified in the representation of Chinese/Taiwanese women; and the development of Taiwanese artifacts and crafts from colonial to postcolonial times, from their discovery, estheticization, and industrialization to their commodification by both the colonizers and the colonized.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	September 2007
Contributors:	Chao-Ching Fu • Chia-Yu Hu
Authors:	Yuko Kikuchi
Contributors:	Kaoru Kojima • Ming-Chu Lai • Hsin-Tien Liao • Naoko Shimazu • Toshio Watanabe • Chuan-Ying Yen
Dimensions:	182 x 256 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-3050-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Oriental art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-8248-3050-4
Barcode:	9780824830502

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