... approaches to be used throughout in the analysis of production and reception; how works were made, how they were consumed, and their cultural evaluation are also outlined here. carvers printers publishers kabuki sumo Edo city of patronage Naitō Akira Nihonbashi painting art world Becker Howard...

... treasonous writings, and the violent attack by a right-wing youth on the publisher of Fukazawa Shichirō’s 1959 story, which depicts the severed heads of imperial family members rolling down the Imperial Palace steps. Such incidents are often cited to prove that art in Japan has been at the mercy of pervasive...

... to, and criticism and redefinition of, a heterogeneous American identity. The book both historicizes and advances the discussion and understanding of identity construction and the crucial roles art plays in U.S. cultural and sociopolitical history. “At least one Japanese we’ve heard of is doing his damnedest...

... the State Department's Advancing American Art. The exhibition ignited one of the major partisan battles over what constituted American art and, more importantly, “Americanness” at the beginning of a decades-long Cold War. The fierce political battles that arose with the exhibition...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of women artists and the female body in the Chinese art tradition in the twentieth century. It shows that throughout the course of China's search for modernity, Chinese women artists have constantly negotiated their positions in art history and contributed...

... in Japanese painting from Edo to the Meiji period. It then considers the Japanese government’s support of Western art before turning to the activities of the first generation of Meiji artists. It also analyzes the rhetoric of Ernest F. Fenollosa and his former pupil and colleague, Okakura Kakuzō regarding...

...). It then explores Okakura’s views about Japanese art as well as the implications of his concept of a unitary Asia and its intellectual basis in opposing the “West.” It also assesses the relationship of Okakura’s thoughts to contemporary intellectual currents, along with his awareness that artistic creativity must...

... , Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation (Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2006), p. 91 . Figure 13.4. Shigemori Mirei, North Garden, Hōjō, Tōfukuji, Kyoto, 1939. Photograph by the author. Plate 22. Tange Kenzō, Garden of the Kagawa...

... woodblock traditions up to 1912, along with new directions that would raise both the status and aesthetic aims of graphic art in 1900–1941. It also explores the transformations of ukiyo-e during the period 1890–1941; the folk art movement and its influence on prints; Japanese prints during...

... Guinea Vangelis world music genre church education education general Hau’ofa Epeli lokal musik music industry art Gunther John Port Moresby PNG racism University of Papua New Guinea UPNG Somare Michael Whitlam Gough Tanzanian ethnographic studies Komboi Thomas ecomusicology independent...

... such as Shōjo no tomo, Shōjo club, and Shōjo gahō. The chapter first provides an overview of the art world in prewar Japan before turning to the visual aesthetics of girls' magazines by focusing on the works of Yumeji Takehisa, Takabatake Kashō, and Nakahara Jun'ichi...

...The Mongols had a great influence on Yuan dynasty art, which, to a certain extent, belies their image as destroyers of culture. A number of art historians have acknowledged the Mongols’ role in one art form or another. This essay provides information about a variety of visual arts, including...

... changed substantially. With art specialists leading the way, historians—especially those, notably Thomas Allsen, who have been able to make the Persian and Chinese primary sources illuminate each other—now see the Mongol period as one in which cultural transmission in many fields across Eurasia...

... scholars have been found to lie both in their books and in their classrooms. China, too, has been indicted as an “empire of lies.” This work seeks a different perspective by focusing on voices of moral conscience within China and beyond. Works of art are used as a focusing mechanism for a fresh perspective...

... hair is black, and his cloak is yellow. He has white toenails and fingernails, and penetrating black eyes with small white brush strokes for highlights; hence, the figure is similar to a piece of folk art than a nineteenth-century heroic monument. In addition, there is paint on the figure. No one knows...

...This book examines the use of the methods of traditional Chinese antiquarianism, or jinshi, as a form of research that came to dominate the modern historiography of ancient China. It shows how Chinese scholars integrated art and antiquarianism into historical studies, thus forging...

...” movement. It also examines the influence of jinshi scholars Luo Zhenyu and Wang Guowei on antiquarianism in China as well as the overlap between the fields of history and archaeology, along with the interrelationships among jinshi and art practice, ritual studies...

...Chapter 5 carries on from the previous chapter by detailing the assemblage of the Bangkok National Museum’s collection along with the formulation in the 1920s of a stylistic classification of antiquities that has since become canonical. The chapter examines the underlying assumptions of the art...

... and artworks that commemorate the traumatic events of October 1973 and October 1976, the chapter also discusses works addressing the more recent violence of 2010. A Brief History of Memory Chulayarnnon documentary Chulayarnnon Siriphol political art Red Shirts United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship...

...This chapter examines the geopolitics of art filmmaking in postsocialist China by focusing on the work of Sixth Generation director, Wang Xiaoshuai. More specifically, it considers how unevenness shapes contemporary art filmmaking and how young directors such as Wang negotiate their opportunities...