Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Takashina, Shūji, 1932- author.; Treyvaud, Matt, translator.
2021
N7353 .T23613 2021 (Mapit)
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Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Author
Takashina, Shūji, 1932- author.
Uniform Title
Nihon bijutsu o miru me. English
Edition
First English edition.
ISBN
9784866581804 (hardcover)
4866581808 (hardcover)
Published
Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
191 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Call Number
N7353 .T23613 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.52 T13j
Summary
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. -- From publisher's description.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Treyvaud, Matt, translator.
Series
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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Nihon bijutsu o miru me.
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Preface to the English edition
Part 1. Methods of Japanese art. chapter 1. The character of Japanese aesthetics
chapter 2. Object and form
chapter 3. Forms of seeing, East and West
chapter 4. The "trailing bough" motif
chapter 5. The art of the journey
chapter 6. The principle of ornamentation
Part II. East-West encounters. chapter 7. East and West in Meiji painting
chapter 8. The avant-garde in Japanese art
chapter 9. Japanese academism
chapter 10. Some problems of Japonisme
Part III. Passing beauty, returning memory. chapter 11. The aesthetics of transition: the four seasons and the Japanese sense of beauty
chapter 12. "The color of the flowers": symphonies of image and word
chapter 13. The heritage of memory: intangible culture as Japanese tradition
Afterword
Afterword to the expanded edition
Original publication details.

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