Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting - Kano Hogai 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 popularity. This volume explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state.

About the author

Chelsea Foxwell is assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago.

Summary

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of popularity. This volume explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state.

Product details

• Authors: Chelsea Foxwell, Foxwell Chelsea
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2015
• EAN: 9780226110806
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11080-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Japan, Malerei und Gemälde, ART / History / General, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Japanese, History of Art, Painting & paintings, East Asia, Far East, Oriental art, Paintings and painting