ISBN:
9780674975163
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0674975162
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9780674237308
,
0674237307
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 315 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs 400
Series Statement:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs
DDC:
701/.170952
Keywords:
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
;
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art
;
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature
;
Arts, Japanese 1868-
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Aesthetics, Japanese 19th century
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Aesthetics, Japanese 20th century
;
Japan
;
Ästhetik
;
Schönheit
;
Meiji-Zeit
;
Frau
;
Schönheitsideal
;
Kunst
;
Literatur
Abstract:
"Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"--
Abstract:
Introduction: On first becoming a painting -- All too aesthetically: the bijin in the era of Japonisme -- "Fair Japan": art, war and the bijin at the Saint Louis World's Fair, 1904 -- True bijin: the debate on truth and beauty -- Bijin graphic: illustrated magazines and the popular ideology of beauty -- "Short-lived beauty": illustration and the bijin heroines of literary realism -- Living works of art: Soseki's aesthetic heroines -- Bijinga: the Nihonga genre and the fashioning of material beauty -- Coda
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan
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Includes bibliographical references and index
