Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images by Foxwell, Chelsea
Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images by Foxwell, Chelsea

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...
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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images by Foxwell, Chelsea

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

$1,407.18
Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images by Foxwell, Chelsea

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

$1,407.18
Author: Chelsea Foxwell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 in westernized cultural hybrids. The Japanese response: nihonga, a traditional style of painting that reframed existing techniques to distinguish them from Western artistic conventions. Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting 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.

Chelsea Foxwell sheds light on interlinked trends in Japanese nationalist discourse, government art policy, American and European commentary on Japanese art, and the demands of export. The seminal artist Kano Hogai (1828-88) is one telling example: originally a painter for the shogun, his art eventually evolved into novel, eerie images meant to satisfy both Japanese and Western audiences. Rather than simply absorbing Western approaches, nihonga as practiced by Hogai and others broke with pre-Meiji painting even as it worked to neutralize the rupture.

By arguing that fundamental changes to audience expectations led to the emergence of nihonga--a traditional interpretation of Japanese art for a contemporary, international market--Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting offers a fresh look at an important aspect of Japan's development into a modern nation.

Author: Chelsea Foxwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/20/2015
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.27lbs
Size: 11.37h x 8.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780226110806


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2016

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



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