Title:
Nihon bijutsu o miru me. English
Japanese art in perspective : East-West encounters / Takashina Shuji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Japan library
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyo Shinko Zaidan)
Author:
Takashina, Shuji, 1932- author.
Treyvaud, Matt, translator.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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. --
In English with Japanese title on colophon page.
Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,
Publication Place:
Tokyo, Japan :
ISBN:
9784866581804
4866581808
Subject:
Art, Japanese -- To 1868.
Painting, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Painting, Japanese -- European influences.
Comparative arts.
Series:
Japan library
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyo Shinko Zaidan)
Edition:
1st edition.
Physical Description:
191 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ;
Publication Date:
2021.
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