Aesthetic Life

Beauty and Art in Modern Japan

Copyright Year:
2019
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978-1-68417-575-8
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26 Oct 2020
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Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xv
On First Becoming a Painting
Pages: 1–25
All Too Aesthetically
The Bijin in the Era of Japonisme
Pages: 27–54
“ Fair Japan”
Art, War, and the Bijin at the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904
Pages: 55–76
True Bijin
The Debate on Truth and Beauty
Pages: 77–100
Bijin Graphic
Illustrated Magazines and the Popular Ideology of Beauty
Pages: 101–123
“Short-Lived Beauty”:
Illustration and the Bijin Heroines of Literary Realism
Pages: 125–153
Living Works of Art:
Sōseki’s Aesthetic Heroines
Pages: 155–189
Bijinga:
The Nihonga Genre and the Fashioning of Material Beauty
Pages: 191–219
Coda
Pages: 221–229
Notes
Pages: 231–274
Bibliography
Pages: 275–298
illustration credits
Pages: 299–300
Index
Pages: 301–315
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Pages: 317–320
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Publisher:
Harvard University Asia Center
Language:
English
Pages:
334 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9781684175758

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