Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art

by Ellen P. Conant

The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during thecourse of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by apolitical event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both thepreceding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868-1912) erashave shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creatingan art-historical void that the former view as a period of waningtechnical and creative inventiveness and the latter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829379
• ISBN13: 9780824829377
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.3"