9. Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Painting and the Allied Arts: From Meiji to the Present
6. 1. Western-Style Painting: Four Stages of Acceptance 19
7. 2. Japanese Painting from Edo to Meiji: Rhetoric and Reality 34
8. 3. The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period 66
9. 4. Sensō Sakusen Kirokuga: Seeing Japan’s War Documentary Painting as a Public Monument 99
10. 5. From Resplendent Signs to Heavy Hands: Japanese Painting in War and Defeat, 1937–1952 124
11. 6. How Gendai Bijutsu Stole the “Museum”: An Institutional Observation of the Vanguard 1960s 144
12. 7. Fashion Altars, Performance Factors, and Pop Cells: Transforming Contemporary Japanese Art, One Body at a Time 168
13. II. Japanese Art of the Period in Its Cultural Context
14. 8. The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan 193
15. 9. Okakura Tenshin and Aesthetic Nationalism 212
16. 10. Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years 257
17. III. Individual Forms of Expression
18. 11. Sculpture 283
19. 12. Can Architecture Be Both Modern and “Japanese”? The Expression of Japanese Cultural Identity through Architectural Practice from 1850 to the Present 315
20. 13. The Modern Japanese Garden 340
21. 14. Japanese Prints 1868–2008 361
22. 15. Aspects of Twentieth-Century Crafts: The New Craft and Mingei Movements 408
23. 16. Japanese Calligraphy since 1868 445
24. 17. Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Cultural and Aesthetic Transformations of Fashion in Modern Japan 471
25. Contributors 497
26. Index 501