Making modern japanese-style painting: kano hogai and the search for images
Auteur :
Foxwell, Chelsea
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226110806
Date de publication :
20 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
2,9 x 2,3 x 0,3 cm
Poids :
1446 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of popularity. This volume explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state.