Beauty and Violence, Art and War: Some Reflections on the Visual Cultures of Imperial Japan
| Autor: | Volk, Alicia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Iss 31, Pp 231-243 (2019) Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol 1, iss 31 |
| ISSN: | 2158-9674 2158-9666 |
| Popis: | Philip Hu, Rhiannon Paget, Sebastian Dobson, Maki Kaneko, Sonja Hotwagner, and Andreas Marks. Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 288 pp. Asato Ikeda. The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. 144 pp. Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit. Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 332 pp. From multiple perspectives, these three books look at imperial Japan through its diverse visual, material, and literary cultures from the mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Taken together, these publications put into productive dialogue an array of media, modes, and genres that were radically transformed via Japan’s ongoing contact with Europe and America and its transformation into a modernized nation-state. In postcards as in paintings, in prints as in photographs, in political cartoons as in poetry, we see Japan’s rude entry into a global order dominated by Western imperialism and its struggle to fashion a national identity at home while communicating a national image abroad. As it turns out, beauty and violence, like art and war, were inseparable: they lay at the heart of what it meant to be modern, along with the mélange of modes and technologies of representation through which images and meanings were created and circulated.... |
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