The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art During the Second World War

by Asato Ikeda

This book examines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly attention. Asato Ikeda views the work of four prominent artists of the time--Yokoyama Taikan, Yasuda Yukihiko, Uemura Shōen, and Fujita Tsuguharu--through the lens of fascism, showing how their seemingly straightforward paintings of Mount Fuji, samurai, beautiful women, and the countryside supported the war by reinforcing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824872126
• ISBN13: 9780824872120
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.1"