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Aesthetic life : beauty and art in modern Japan
- Title
- Aesthetic life : beauty and art in modern Japan / Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit.
- Author
- Lippit, Miya Elise Mizuta
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xv, 315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400.
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-298) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: On first becoming a painting -- All too aesthetically: the bijin in the era of Japonisme -- "Fair Japan": art, war and the bijin at the Saint Louis World's Fair, 1904 -- True bijin: the debate on truth and beauty -- Bijin graphic: illustrated magazines and the popular ideology of beauty -- "Short-lived beauty": illustration and the bijin heroines of literary realism -- Living works of art: Soseki's aesthetic heroines -- Bijinga: the Nihonga genre and the fashioning of material beauty -- Coda.
- Call Number
- JFF 19-1187
- ISBN
- 9780674975163
- 0674975162
- 9780674237308
- 0674237307
- LCCN
- 2016034935
- OCLC
- 1059249850
- Author
- Lippit, Miya Elise Mizuta, author.
- Title
- Aesthetic life : beauty and art in modern Japan / Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityHarvard East Asian monographs ; 400.Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-298) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1800
- Research Call Number
- JFF 19-1187