The people at rest: the anarchist origins of Ogawa Usen's ‘Nihonga’
| Autor: | Sho Konishi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | World Art. 1:235-256 |
| ISSN: | 2150-0908 2150-0894 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21500894.2011.602711 |
| Popis: | This essay revises our understanding of Ogawa Usen, a prolific artist known for his contributions to the genre of Nihonga, ‘Japanese-style painting,’ in early twentieth century Japan. Nihonga was founded to appreciate and preserve ‘Japanese arts.’ Leading representatives of Nihonga aestheticized ‘Japan’ in nostalgic representations of the nation. By considering Usen's art from the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) when Usen's work first gained popularity, the essay argues that Usen intended his work to express anarchist ideas of progress antithetical to the nostalgic sense of yearning for a vanishing national culture. According to some of the most recognized anarchist figures from the movement, human progress would be guided by anarchist principles that valued the everyday doing of common people, each with his or her own creative energy and talent to contribute to society. Usen first gained public attention as a cartoon illustrator for the Nonwar Movement against the state. Although museums and art historian... |
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