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Parallel Modernism

Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2019)

Author Chinghsin Wu discusses conceptualizing global modernism through works by the Japanese artist Koga Harue.

key themes
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Gender and identity
further reading
  • Alicia Volk, In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
  • Bert Winther-Tamaki, Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012).
  • Gennifer Weisenfeld, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
  • Erin Schoneveld, Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant- Garde. (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
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Chinese Ways of Seeing

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020)

Author Yi Gu discusses how the practice of plein air sketching was critical to shaping, and perceiving, national identity throughout modern Chinese art.

key themes
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Gardens, landscape, and environment
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Visuality
  • Open-air painting
  • Comparative media studies
  • Art in authoritarian regime
  • Epistemological shifts
further reading
  • Andrews, Julia Frances. Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Andrews, Julia Frances, and Kuiyi Shen. The Art of Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
  • Barme, Geremie. An Artist Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai(1898-1978). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
  • Chung, Anita. Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Clarke, David. Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World. Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
  • Clunas, Craig. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017.
  • Croizier, Ralph. Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Roberts, Claire. Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
  • Wong, Aida Y. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-Style Painting in Modern China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
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Bokujinkai

Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020)

Author Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer discusses calligraphy, abstraction, and global contemporary art in postwar Japan.

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  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Global modernism and global contemporary art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Abstract art and abstract painting
  • Postwar avant-garde
  • Modernism
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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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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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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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