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Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition) Loot Price: R4,090
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Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition): Hiroshi Nara

Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition)

Hiroshi Nara; Contributions by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, Brenda G. Jordan, David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Jonah Salz, Mayu Tsuruya

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Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was thought at the time, and they used a variety of strategies to address the tension between modernity and tradition. Inexorable Modernity illuminates our understanding of how Japan has dealt with modernity and of what mechanisms, universal and local, we can attribute to the mode of negotiation between tradition and modernity in three major forms of art-theater, the visual arts, and literature. Dr. Hiroshi Nara brings together a thoughtful collection of essays that demonstrate that traditional and modern approaches to life feed off of one other, and tradition, whether real or created, was sought out in order to find a way to live with the burden of modernity. Inexorable Modernity is a valuable and enlightening read for those interested in Asian studies and history.

General

Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2007
First published: February 2007
Editors: Hiroshi Nara
Contributors: John K. Gillespie • David G. Goodman • Charles Shiro Inouye • Mikiko Hirayama • Brenda G. Jordan • David Jortner • Keiko I. McDonald • Jonah Salz • Mayu Tsuruya
Dimensions: 239 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Edition: annotated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1841-2
Categories: 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: 0-7391-1841-2
Barcode: 9780739118412

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