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Men in metal : a topography of public bronze statuary in modern Japan /

Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saaler, Sven, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Roots
  • How Not to Be Seen: The Hidden Statuary of Emperor Meiji
  • Beginnings: Statues of Imperial Figures
  • Patterns of Social Behavior and Participation
  • A Quantitative Analysis of Public Statuary in Modern Japan
  • A Typology of Public Statuary in Modern Japan
  • Mobilizing Japan's "Men in Metal" in the Asia-Pacifi c War
  • Colonial Statues and Their Legacy
  • The Resurgence of Public Statuary in Postwar Japan
  • Public Statuary since the 1960s
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.