The Aesthetics of Strangeness : Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan /

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Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, conc...

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Autor principal: Brecher, W. Puck (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Temas:
Aesthetics, Japanese > History.
Art, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Japan.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Contexts of Strangeness
  • Chapter 1. Strange Interpretations
  • Chapter 2. Contexts of Strangeness in Seventeenth-Century Japan
  • Part II. Discourses on Difference in the Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter 3. Strange Tastes Cultural Eccentricity and Its Vanguard
  • Chapter 4. Strange Thoughts: A Confluence of Intellectual Heterodoxies
  • Chapter 5. Eccentrics of Recent Times and Social Value Biography Reinvents the Eccentric
  • Part III. Finishers and Failures of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 6. Strangeness in the Early Nineteenth Century Commercialism, Conservatism, and Diffusion
  • Chapter 7. Reevaluating Strangeness in Late Tokugawa
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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