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Author : Erin Schoneveld
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : 9789004390607
Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism examines the seminal role of art magazines and artistic collectives in shaping modern Japanese art and aesthetics during the early 20th century.
Author : Erin Schoneveld
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004393633
Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism examines the most significant Japanese art and literary magazine of the early twentieth century, Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910–1923). In this volume Erin Schoneveld explores the fluid relationship that existed between different types of modern visual media, exhibition formats, and artistic practices embraced by the Shirakaba-ha (White Birch Society). Schoneveld provides a new comparative framework for understanding how the avant-garde pursuit of individuality during Japan’s Taishō period stood in opposition to state-sponsored modernism and how this played out in the emerging media of art magazines. This book analyzes key moments in modern Japanese art and intellectual history by focusing on the artists most closely affiliated with Shirakaba, including Takamura Kōtarō, Umehara Ryūzaburō, and Kishida Ryūsei, who selectively engaged with and transformed modernist idioms of individualism and self-expression to create a new artistic style that gave visual form to their own subjective reality. Drawing upon archival research that includes numerous articles, images, and exhibitions reviews from Shirakaba, as well as a complete translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s seminal essay, “The Revolutionary Artist” (Kakumei no gaka), Schoneveld demonstrates that, contrary to the received narrative that posits Japanese modernism as merely derivative, the debate around modernism among Japan’s early avant-garde was lively, contested, and self-reflexive.
Author : Erin E. Kelley
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
This dissertation examines how the avant-garde pursuit of individuality during early twentieth century Japan constituted a confrontation over state-sponsored modernism and how these confrontations played out among emerging technologies like print media. I analyze key moments in modern Japanese art and culture by focusing upon the careers of three Shirakaba Society artists--Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956), Umehara Ryuzaburo (1888-1986), and Kishida Ryusei (1891-1929)--and their struggle to form distinct identities not defined through a collective style or national ideology. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Japanese government was keenly aware of the political, economic, and social potential of yoga or "Western-style oil painting" in creating a modern national identity. Using the medium of the art journal as their tool of intervention, the Japanese artists and writers affiliated with Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910-1923) reframed the debate on modern painting and sculpture by subverting government established styles and exhibition formats that reinforced the cultural and political objectives of Japan's nation building efforts. These activities opened a critical space that allowed Japanese artists to explore and complicate the established narratives of the emerging avant-garde: on a personal level, as a member of an artistic collective, and as a citizen of the Japanese nation. By using the art journal as a lens through which to critique scholarly paradigms that frame Japan's construction of a new modernity as merely derivative, I argue that Shirakaba's dialogue with modern styles in painting and sculpture revolutionized the production and exhibition of art in Tokyo during the nineteen-teens and twenties. "Modernism," I propose, became a transnational language, style, and attitude, transformed for early twentieth century Japan.
Author : Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004437061
Japanese calligraphy had its international heyday—collaborating with and yet challenging abstract painting—in the early postwar years. This book explores a Kyoto-based calligraphy group Bokujinkai, and its contribution to the Japanese, American, and European postwar avant-gardes.
Author : Seiji M. Lippit
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231125305
Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement--Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi--Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism.
Author : Alicia Volk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520259521
"Volk's impressive study rethinks the East-West binary often reiterated in discussions of Japanese modernism by reinserting local aspects into the universalizing tendencies of modernism itself. The book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on modern Japanese art history by providing an alternative comparative framework for understanding the global development of modernism that decenters Euro-America. Rigorously historical in her critique, Volk destabilizes our understanding of the Japanese experience of modernity through the prism of Yorozu's singular vision of the self, leaving us questioning conventional wisdom and contented to wobble."--Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University "In Volk's affectingly stunning and deeply reflective study of the Japanese artist Yorozu Tetsugorō's work between 1910-1930, we have a profoundly historical reminder of how modernism everywhere struggled to meet the demands of the new with the readymades of received artistic practices. In this study of Yorozu's utopian universalist project, Volk has imaginatively broadened our understanding of the modernist moment and perceptively captured its global program to unify art and life, contemporary culture and history."--Harry Harootunian, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan
Author : Olga V. Solovieva
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781621965534
Japan's Russia is a valuable resource that reinterprets modern Japanese culture and society and introducing readers to the rich intellectual and cultural history between Japan and Russia.
Author : Meghen Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429631995
Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan’s most dramatic period of modernization, the 1860s to 1960s. As in other parts of the world, ceramics in modern Japan developed along the three ontological trajectories of art, craft, and design. Yet, it is widely believed that no other modern nation was engaged with ceramics as much as Japan—a "potter’s paradise"—in terms of creation, exhibition, and discourse. This book explores how Japanese ceramics came to achieve such a status and why they were such significant forms of cultural production. Its medium-specific focus encourages examination of issues regarding materials and practices unique to ceramics, including their distinct role throughout Japanese cultural history. Going beyond descriptive historical treatments of ceramics as the products of individuals or particular styles, the closely intertwined chapters also probe the relationship between ceramics and modernity, including the ways in which ceramics in Japan were related to their counterparts in Asia and Europe. Featuring contributions by leading international specialists, this book will be useful to students and scholars of art history, design, and Japanese studies.
Author : Ming Tiampo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226801667
Gutai is the first book in English to examine Japan’s best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art. Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai’s pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and travel that made the movement’s field of reception and influence global in scope. Using these lines of transmission to claim a place for Gutai among modernist art practices while tracing the impact of Japan on art in Europe and America, Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental transnationality of modernism. Ultimately, Tiampo offers a new conceptual model for writing a global history of art, making Gutai an important and original contribution to modern art history.
Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004211306
By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.