Mirroring the Japanese Empire

The Male Figure in Yōga Painting, 1930-1950
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-22767-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Japanese Visual Culture

In this groundbreaking study of a subject intricately tied up with the controversies of Japanese wartime politics and propaganda, Maki Kaneko reexamines the iconic male figures created by artists of yoga (Western-style painting) between 1930 and 1950. Particular attention is given to prominent yoga painters such as Fujita Tsuguharu, Yasui Sotaro, Matsumoto Shunsuke, and Yamashita Kiyoshi—all of whom achieved fame for their images of men either during or after the Asia-Pacific War. By closely investigating the representation of male figures together with the contemporary politics of gender, race, and the body, this profusely illustrated volume offers new insight into artists’ activities in late Imperial Japan. Rather than adhering to the previously held model of unilateral control governing the Japanese Empire’s visual regime, the author proposes a more complex analysis of the role of Japanese male artists and how art functioned during an era of international turmoil.

Zielgruppe

All interested in twentieth-century Japanese art history, and anyone concerned with the political culture and history of Japan in the 1930s and 40s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaneko, Maki

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carpenter, John T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur

Über Autor(innen)

Maki Kaneko, Ph.D. (2005), University of East Anglia, is Associate Professor in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. She has published several articles on Japanese visual arts during the Asia-Pacific War.