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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brecher, W. Puck (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Honʼyaku iin shachū > Japan
Kultur
Edo-Zeit
Exzentrizität
Eccentrics and eccentricities.
Art, Japanese > Edo period.
Aesthetics, Japanese.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
ART > History > General.
Esthetique japonaise > Histoire.
Art japonais > 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo)
Aesthetics, Japanese > History.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Japan.
Art, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868.
Japan.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Strange interpretations
  • Contexts of strangeness in seventeenth-century Japan
  • Strange tastes: cultural eccentricity and its vanguard
  • Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies
  • Eccentrics of recent times and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric
  • Strangeness in the early nineteenth century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion
  • Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.

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