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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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Henri Bertin

Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2020)

Author John Finlay discusses the mutual fascination that enabled the transfer of objects and styles between eighteenth-century French and Chinese courts.

key themes
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Landscape, gardens, and environment
  • Material culture
  • Art and politics
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Lee, Chao-Ying. Visions de l’Empire du Milieu au 18e siècle en France: Illustrations des Mémoires concernant les Chinois (1776–1791). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016.
  • Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: Par les missionnaires de Pekin, Joseph Amiot, François Bourgeois, Pierre-Martial Cibot, Aloys Kao, Aloys de Poirot, et al., comp., 15 vols. Paris: Nyon, 1776–1791.
  • Mungello, David E. The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800, Fourth Edition, Revised. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
  • Musillo, Marco. The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016.
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Where Dragon Veins Meet

Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe (University of Washington Press, 2020)

Author Stephen H. Whiteman discusses reconstructing an imperial garden with digital tools and the importance of spatial ideology in early eighteenth-century China.

key themes
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Landscape, gardens, and environment
  • Court art
  • Art and politics
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Cahill, James. The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1982.
  • Certeau, Michel de. “Spatial Stories.” In Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall, 115–130. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  • Chang, Michael G. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680–1785. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
  • Clunas, Craig. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
  • Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
  • Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Elliott, Mark C. “The Limits of Tartary: Manchuria in Imperial and National Geographies.” Journal of Asian Studies 59:3 (2000): 603–46.
  • Forêt, Philippe. Mapping Chengde: The Qing Landscape Enterprise. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000.
  • Hall, David L., and Roger T. Ames. “The Cosmological Setting of Chinese Gardens.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 18:3 (1998): 175–86.
  • Harley, J. Brian. “Maps, Knowledge, and Power.” In The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, edited by Paul Laxton, 51–83. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • Mitchell, W. J. T. “Imperial Landscape.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W. J. T. Mitchell, 5–34. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Rawski, Evelyn S. “Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History.” Journal of Asian Studies 55:4 (1996): 829–50.
  • Strassberg, Richard E., and Stephen H. Whiteman. Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016.
  • Upton, Dell. “Black and White Landscapes in Eighteenth Century Virginia.” In Material Life in America, 1600–1860, edited by Robert Blair St. George, 357–69. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.
  • Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steve Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
  • Vinograd, Richard. “Family Properties: Personal Context and Cultural Pattern in Wang Meng’s ‘Pien Mountains’ of 1366.” Ars Orientalis 13 (1982): 1–29.
  • Whiteman, Stephen. From Upper Camp to Mountain Villa: Recovering Historical Narratives in Qing Imperial Landscapes.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 33:4 (2013): 249–79.
  • Yuan Senpo. “Qingdai kouwai xinggong de youlai yu Chengde Bishu shanzhuang de fazhan guocheng.” Qingshi luncong 2 (1980): 286–319.
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Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures

Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures: Reconsidering the Collection of the Qing Imperial Household (Hong Kong University Press, 2019)

Author Nicole Chiang discusses the history of collecting, artistic patronage, and how imperial court production was organized during eighteenth-century China.

key themes
  • Material culture
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Collecting and collections
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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.

key themes
  • 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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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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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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