Research Catalog

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

• Art > History
• Art, Japanese
• Art
• Comparative arts

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