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Painting Circles - John D. Szostak

Painting Circles

Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early Twentieth Century Japan

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Buch | Hardcover
302 Seiten
2013
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-21672-3 (ISBN)
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This book explores the practice of Nihonga painter Tsuchida Bakusen (1997-1936), and his professional strategy for developing an independent artistic identity, one that emphasized the central role played by tradition in the invention and expression of a Japanese regional dialect of artistic modernism.
Painting Circles addresses the changing professional milieu of artists in early 20th century Japan, particularly the development of new social roles and networks, and how these factors informed the development of artistic identity. The focus of the study is the Nihonga painter Tsuchida Bakusen (1887-1936), who in 1918 founded an exhibition collective, the Kokuga Society, in response to increasing dissatisfaction with the nation’s government-sponsored exhibition salon. The study examines efforts by Bakusen and company to establish an independent position vis-à-vis the arts establishment by demonstrating their reflexive knowledge of Western modernist art movements on the one hand, and on the other, by showing their deep commitment to preserving traditional Japanese painting themes, media and techniques into the 20th century.

Dr. John Szostak is Associate Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his B.A. from Colgate University, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. He undertook his doctoral research as a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University, and completed his Ph.D. on the Kokuga Society and Kyoto Nihonga in 2005. He taught Japanese art history at the University of Washington and at the University of British Columbia before coming to the University of Hawaii in 2006. His primary research interests are in the history of Japanese neotraditional painting (Nihonga) of the late 19th and early 20th century, and more broadly, in changing attitudes towards traditional Japanese arts and aesthetics in the modern and post-modern periods. He is currently involved in a translation project entitled “Art Sources and Documents of the Meiji, Taishō and early Showa Era (1860s-1940s)” and a book-length study of modernist Buddhist painting of Japan.

Chapter 1. Bakusen's Early Life and Works: Towards a Rural Genre Painting
Chapter 2. Beyond Chikujōkai: Expanding Influences and New Encounters
Chapter 3. Challenges, Changes, and Evolving Strategies at the Bunten
Chapter 4. Gathering the Higashiyama Circle
Chapter 5. The Inaugural Kokuten Exhibition of 1918: Content and Contexts
Chapter 6. Artistic Flowering: The Second and Third Kokuten Exhibitions
Chapter 7. Hiatus, Expansion, and Collapse: The Kokuten's Middle and Final Stages
Conclusions
Appendix 1: Documents Related to the Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai
Appendix 2: List of Characters

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.10.2013
Reihe/Serie Japanese Visual Culture ; 11
Zusatzinfo 150 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 249 mm
Gewicht 1174 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10 90-04-21672-3 / 9004216723
ISBN-13 978-90-04-21672-3 / 9789004216723
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