Making modern Japanese-style painting : Kano Hōgai and the search for images /
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Making modern Japanese-style painting : Kano Hōgai and the search for images /

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise i...

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Main Author: Foxwell, Chelsea (Author)
Corporate Author: PALCI EBSCO books
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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Access:Online version
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Nihonga and the historical inscription of the modern
  • Exhibitions and the making of modern Japanese painting
  • In search of images
  • The painter and his audiences
  • Decadence and the emergence of Nihonga style
  • Naturalizing the double reading
  • Transmission and the historicity of Nihonga
  • Conclusion.