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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting (Hardcover)
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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting (Hardcover)
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The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century
world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new
levels of popularity. With that popularity, however, came
criticism, as Western writers lamented a perceived end to pure
Japanese art and a rise in westernized cultural hybrids. The
Japanese response: nihonga, a traditional painting style that
reframed existing techniques to distinguish them from Western
artistic conventions. Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting
explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga
and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging
notions of the modern Japanese state. The artist Kano Hogai
(1828-88) is a telling example: originally a painter for the
shogun, his art evolved into novel, eerie images meant to satisfy
both Japanese and Western audiences. Rather than absorbing Western
approaches, nihonga as practiced by Hogai and others broke with
pre-Meiji painting even as it worked to neutralize the rupture. By
arguing that changing audience expectations led to the emergence of
nihonga, Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting offers a fresh look
at an important aspect of Japan's development into a modern nation.
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