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Japanese art in perspective : east-west encounters /
- Title
- Japanese art in perspective : east-west encounters / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
- Author
- Takashina, Shūji, 1932-
- Publication
- Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.
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- Additional Authors
- Treyvaud, Matt,
- Description
- viii pages of plates, 191 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- "How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, TAKASHINA Shūji, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty.
- Series Statement
- Japan library
- Uniform Title
- Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
- Alternative Title
- Nihon bijutsu o miru me : Higashi to Nishi no deai : zōho : Eibunban
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Part I: Methods of Japanese Art. The Character of Japanese Aesthetics -- Object and Form -- Forms of Seeing, East and West -- The "Trailing Bough" Motif -- The Art of the Journey -- The Principle of Ornamentation -- Part II: East-West Encounters. East and West in Meiji Painting -- The Avant-Garde in Japanese Art -- Japanese Academism -- Some Problems of Japonisme -- Part III: Passing Beauty, Returning Memory. The Aesthetics of Transition: The Four Seasons and the Japanese Sense of Beauty -- "The Color of the Flowers": Symphonies of Image and Word -- The Heritage of Memory: Intangible Culture as Japanese Tradition.
- ISBN
- 9784866581804
- 4866581808
- LCCN
- 2020436518
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library