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Bachelor Japanists - Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (Paperback)
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Bachelor Japanists - Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (Paperback)
Series: Modernist Latitudes
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Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor
Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests
over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed
draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of
writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous
century between the 1860s and the 1960s. Reed combines extensive
archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature;
the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to
explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic
milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of
late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in
turn-of-the-century Boston; and the mid-twentieth-century circles
of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a
groundbreaking integration of well-known and forgotten episodes and
personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to
challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are
sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional
scholarly investments in the heroism of avant-garde accomplishment
and ideals of cultural authenticity.
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