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Making modern Japanese-style painting : Kano Hōgai and the search for images /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foxwell, Chelsea (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Kanō, Hōgai, > 1828-1888.
Painting, Japanese > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Painting, Japanese > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Nihonga and the historical inscription of the modern
  • Exhibitions and the making of modern Japanese painting
  • In search of images
  • The painter and his audiences
  • Decadence and the emergence of Nihonga style
  • Naturalizing the double reading
  • Transmission and the historicity of Nihonga
  • Conclusion.