Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty

by Doshin Sato and Hiroshi Nara

This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870s and 1880s, artists, government administrators, and others in Japan encountered the Western "system of the arts" for the first time, as objects and information from Japan reached European and American audiences following the collapse of the shogun's regime. Under pressure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606060597
• ISBN13: 9781606060599
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.8" x 10.7"