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Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism

Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-garde (Brill, 2019)

Author Erin Schoneveld discusses White Birch Society’s avant-garde strategies in early 20th-century Japan and its impact on later avant-garde collectives.

Listen to an interview with Erin Schoneveld on the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast.

key themes
  • Art market and commerce
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Clark, John. Modern Asian Art. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998.
  • Guth, Christine. “Takamura Kōun and Takamura Kōtarō: On Being a Sculptor.” In The Artist as Professional in Japan, edited by Melinda Takeuchi, 152–79. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Inaga, Shigemi. “Between Revolutionary and Oriental Sage: Paul Cézanne in Japan.” Japan Review 28 (2015): 133–72.
  • Kaneko, Maki. Mirroring the Japanese Empire: The Male Figure in Yōga Painting, 1930–1950. Brill Japanese Visual Culture 14. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015.
  • Kikuchi, Yūko. Japanese Modernization and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
  • Kitazawa Noriaki. Kishida Ryūsei to Taishō abangyarudo. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1993.
  • Lucken, Michael. Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao. Translated by Francesca Simkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
  • Nagai Takanori. “Nihon no Sezanisumu: 1920 nendai Nihon no jinkaku shugi Sezannu zō no biteki konkyō to sono keisei ni kan suru shisō oyobi bijutsu seisaku no bunmyaku ni tsuite.” Bijutsu kenkyū, no. 375 (2002): 38–56.
  • Omuka, Toshiharu. Kanshū no seiritsu: bijutsuten, bijutsu zasshi, bijutsushi. Tokyo: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 2008.
  • Satō, Dōshin. Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty. Translated by Hiroshi Nara. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2011.
  • Szostak, John D. Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan. Brill Japanese Visual Culture 11. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013.
  • Tiampo, Ming. Gutai: Decentering Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  • Volk, Alicia. “Authority, Autonomy, and the Early Taishō ‘Avant Garde’.” positions: east asia cultures critique 21, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 451–73.
  • Volk, Alicia. In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press and Washington, DC: Phillips Collection, 2010.
  • Volk, Alicia. “A Unified Rhythm: Past and Present in Japanese Modern Art.” In Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Modern Era, edited by Christine Guth, Yamanashi Emiko, and Alicia Volk, 39–55. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, 2004.
  • Weisenfeld, Gennifer. Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905–1931. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
  • Winther-Tamaki, Bert. Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955.Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012.
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What the Emperor Built

What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020)

Author Aurelia Campbell discusses imperial and temple architecture built under the Yongle emperor in the early fifteenth century.

key themes
  • Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism
  • Material culture
  • Imperial art, politics, and the court
  • Architecture, space, and the built environment
further reading
  • Campbell, Aurelia. “The Hall of Supreme Harmony as a Simulacrum of Ming Dynasty Construction.” In The Ming World, edited by Kenneth Swope, 221-240. New York: Routledge Press, 2019.
  • Chan, Hok-Lam, Legends of the Building of Old Peking. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2008.
  • Clunas, Craig and Jessica Harrison-Hall, eds. Ming: 50 Years that Changed China. London: The British Museum Press, 2014.
  • Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu-ping Luk, eds. Ming Courts and Contacts (1400-1450). London: The British Museum Press, 2016.
  • Yu Zhouyun. Palaces of the Forbidden City. New York, NY: Viking, 1984.
  • Zhang, Fan Jeremy, ed. Royal Taste: The Art of the Princely Courts in Fifteenth-Century China. New York: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2015.
  • Zhu, Jianfei. Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
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Transcending Patterns

Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles (University of Hawaii Press, 2019)

Author Mariachiara Gasparini discusses textile history across and beyond the Silk Road between the 7th to 14th centuries.

key themes
  • Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism
  • Material culture
  • Art market and commerce
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Silk Road studies
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Mongol Court Dress

Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020)

Author Eiren Shea discusses fashion, politics, and the Mongol empire across Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries.

NOTE: The end of the video should state that there are over 5000 kilometers, not miles, between Beijing and Tabriz.

key themes
  • Material culture
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Arnold, Lauren. Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and its Influence on Art of the West, 1250-1350. San Francisco: Desiderata Press, 1999.
  • Chen Gaohua 陈高华 and Xu Jijun 徐吉军, eds. Zhongguo fushi tongshi 中国服饰通史. Ningbo: Ningbo chuban she, 2002.
  • Fircks, Juliane von and Regula Schorta, editors. Oriental Silks in Medieval Europe. Riggisberger Berichte 21. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2016.
  • Gordon, Stewart, editor. Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Hammers, Roslyn Lee. “Khubilai Khan Hunting: Tribute to the Great Khan.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 75.1 (2015), 5-44.
  • Kadoi, Yuka. Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
  • Komaroff, Linda, editor. Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006.
  • Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni, editors. The Legacy of Genghis Khan. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Kuhn, Dieter and Zhao Feng (eds.). Chinese Silks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
  • McCausland, Shane. The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.
  • Monnas, Lisa. Merchants, Princes, and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1500. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Steinhardt, Nancy. “Yuan Period Tombs and Their Inscriptions,” Ars Orientalis 37 (2007), 140-174.
  • Wardwell, Anne E. and James C. Y. Watt. When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Watt, James C.Y., editor. The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Zhao Feng. Treasures in Silk. Hong Kong: Costume Squad Ltd., 1999.
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Yumeji Modern

Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan (University of Washington Press, 2020)

Author Nozomi Naoi discusses modern Japanese design and the life of Yumeji Takehisa.

Listen to an interview with Nozomi Naoi on the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast.

key themes
  • Gender and identity
  • Material culture
  • Art market and commerce
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Media and design
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Hua Yan

Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China (Brill, 2020)

Author Kristen Loring Brennan discusses painting and social status in eighteenth-century China.

key themes
  • Gender and identity
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Landscape, gardens, and environment
  • Art market and commerce
  • Social status
  • Canon
further reading
  • Ginger Cheng-chi Hsu, A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-century Yangchow (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)
  • Tobie S. Meyer-Fong, Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
  • Yeewan Koon, A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early 19th-Century Guangdong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014)
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Drawing From Life

Drawing From Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the Early People’s Republic of China (University of California Press, 2020)

Author Christine I. Ho discusses making revolutionary art in the early People’s Republic of China (1949-1965).

key themes
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Art and politics
  • Art and revolution
  • Postwar art
further reading
  • Julia Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
  • Melissa Chiu, Art and China’s Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
  • Lily Chumley, Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
  • Maria Galikowski, Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998).
  • Chang-tai Hung, Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic (Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011).
  • Richard Curt Kraus, Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
  • Ellen Laing, The Winking Owl : Art in the People’s Republic of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
  • Stefan Landsberger, Chinese Posters: The IISH-Landsberger Collections (Munich: Prestel, 2009).
  • Lü Peng. A History of Art in 20th-Century China (Milan: Charta, 2010).
  • Bonnie McDougall, Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art” : A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies; University of Michigan, 1980).
  • Xiaobing Tang, Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
  • Nicolai Volland, Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).
  • Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
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