Inexorable modernity : Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts /
Inexorable modernity : Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts /
edited by Hiroshi Nara.
- xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : inexorable modernity / Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyosai / "Modernite in art" : Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / The ascent of Yoga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's philosophy / Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyogen experiments / An aesthetic of destruction : Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / Remembered idylls, forgotten truths : nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre) : the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / The wild geese revisited : Mori Ogai's mix of old and new / Public space and the nature of modern fiction : Izumi Kyoka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / Hiroshi Nara -- Brenda G. Jordan -- Mikiko Hirayama -- Mayu Tsuruya -- Hiroshi Nara -- Jonah Salz -- David G. Goodman -- David Jortner -- Devin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Keiko L. Mcdonald -- Charles Shrio Inouye -- John K. Gillespie. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11.
0739118412 9780739118412 0739118420 9780739118429
2006031132
Arts, Japanese--1868-
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Japan
Modernism (Art)--Japan
Modernism (Literature)--Japan
NX584.A1 / I54 2007
700.9520904
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : inexorable modernity / Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyosai / "Modernite in art" : Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / The ascent of Yoga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's philosophy / Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyogen experiments / An aesthetic of destruction : Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / Remembered idylls, forgotten truths : nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre) : the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / The wild geese revisited : Mori Ogai's mix of old and new / Public space and the nature of modern fiction : Izumi Kyoka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / Hiroshi Nara -- Brenda G. Jordan -- Mikiko Hirayama -- Mayu Tsuruya -- Hiroshi Nara -- Jonah Salz -- David G. Goodman -- David Jortner -- Devin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Keiko L. Mcdonald -- Charles Shrio Inouye -- John K. Gillespie. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11.
0739118412 9780739118412 0739118420 9780739118429
2006031132
Arts, Japanese--1868-
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Japan
Modernism (Art)--Japan
Modernism (Literature)--Japan
NX584.A1 / I54 2007
700.9520904