Inexorable Modernity Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts |
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| Editor:
| Nara, Hiroshi |
| Contribution by:
| Gillespie, John K.
Goodman, David G.
Inouye, Charles Shiro
Hirayama, Mikiko
Jordan, Brenda G.
Jortner, David
McDonald, Keiko I.
Salz, Jonah
Tsuruya, Mayu
Wetmore, Kevin J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-1841-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some of the most notable practitioners of art and intellectuals in Japan during this period.
The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some of the most notable practitioners of art and intellectuals in Japan during this period.