@article{1373762,
      recid = {1373762},
      author = {Takashina, Shūji, and Treyvaud, Matt,},
      title = {Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters /},
      pages = {191 pages, viii pages of plates :},
      note = {"This book is a translation of Zōho Nihon bijutsu o miru  me: Higathi to Nishi no deai, which was published by  Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo, first in hardcover in  1991, follwed by a paperback edition in 1996, and then  republished in 2009 with additional essays." -- colophon.},
      abstract = {How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this  comparative cultural study, the author, a leading scholar  of Western art history and insightful commentator on  Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to  reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese  sense of beauty. The first section of the book, Methods of  Japanese Art, uses examples and cross-cultural comparisons  to elucidate the techniques by which Japanese artists  cultivated their unique approach. These include roving  rather than fixed perspective, the 'aesthetic of negation'  - excising the unnecessary to emphasize what remains - and  the 'trailing bough' motif, which evokes a world beyond the  work's borders and influenced Western artists such as  Monet. In the second section, East-West Encounters, the  book examines the history of cultural interaction between  Japan and the West from the early modern period on and its  influence on the art of both. The third section, Passing  Beauty, Returning Memory, contains essays on Japanese  culture more broadly, including its preference for  recurring forms over fixed monuments and its tradition of  combining multiple seasons in a single image. This book is  a guide not only to the art of Japan but to the essence of  its spiritual culture. --},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1373762},
}