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Subject(s)

• Art, Japanese [Browse]
• Aesthetics, Japanese [Browse]
• Art—History [Browse]
• Comparative arts [Browse]
• East and West in art [Browse]
• Japan—Civilization [Browse]

Translator

• Treyvaud, Matt [Browse]

• Treyvaud, Matt [Browse]

Series

• Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan) [More in this series]
• Japan library

Translation of

• Nihon bijutsu o miru me.
• 日本美術を見る眼

Summary note

How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, the author, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty. The first section of the book, Methods of Japanese Art, uses examples and cross-cultural comparisons to elucidate the techniques by which Japanese artists cultivated their unique approach. These include roving rather than fixed perspective, the 'aesthetic of negation' - excising the unnecessary to emphasize what remains - and the 'trailing bough' motif, which evokes a world beyond the work's borders and influenced Western artists such as Monet. In the second section, East-West Encounters, the book examines the history of cultural interaction between Japan and the West from the early modern period on and its influence on the art of both. The third section, Passing Beauty, Returning Memory, contains essays on Japanese culture more broadly, including its preference for recurring forms over fixed monuments and its tradition of combining multiple seasons in a single image. This book is a guide not only to the art of Japan but to the essence of its spiritual culture. -- From publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Methods of Japanese Art. The Character of Japanese Aesthetics ; Object and Form ; Forms of Seeing, East and West ; The "Trailing Bough" Motif ; The Art of the Journey ; The Principle of Ornamentation
• East-West Encounters. East and West in Meiji Painting ; The Avant-Garde in Japanese Art ; Japanese Academism ; Some Problems of Japonisme
• Passing Beauty, Returning Memory. The Aesthetics of Transition : The Four Seasons and the Japanese Sense of Beauty ; "The Color of the Flowers" : Symphonies of Image and Word ; The Heritage of Memory : Intangible Culture as Japanese Tradition.

Other title(s)

• Nihon bijutsu o miru me : Higashi to Nishi no deai : zōho : Eibunban
• 日本美術を見る眼 : 東と西の出会い : 増補 : 英文版

ISBN

• 9784866581804 ((hardcover))
• 4866581808 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2020436518

OCLC

1246723509

RCP

C - S

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