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Ivory and the aesthetics of modernity in Meiji Japan / Martha Chaiklin, Independent Scholar, USA.

Title
Ivory and the aesthetics of modernity in Meiji Japan / Martha Chaiklin, Independent Scholar, USA.
Author
Chaiklin, Martha, 1960-
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description
ix, 122 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1800 - 1899
  • ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  • Ivory carving > Japan
  • Aesthetics, Japanese > 19th century
  • Art and society > Japan > History > 19th century
  • ART / Asian
  • HISTORY / Asia / Japan
  • HISTORY / Modern / General
  • Aesthetics, Japanese
  • Art and society
  • Ivory carving
  • Japan
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-118) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Art, Ivory and the Meiji Period: An Introduction -- 2. The Curiosity Shop: The Forces of Capitalism -- 3. Transformations of the Craftsman -- 4. Individualism, Orthodoxy and the Evolution of Ivory Carving as Sculpture -- 5. Ivory after Meiji: A Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781137363329 (hardback)
  • 1137363320 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2014030385
OCLC
885092712
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library