| Description |
viii, 285 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations(some color), portraits ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Images of Taiwan and the discovery of the Taiwanese landscape -- 1. Colonial encounters : Japanese travel writing on colonial Taiwan / Naoko Shimazu -- 2. The beauty of the untamed : exploration and travel in colonial Taiwanese landscape painting / Hsin-tien [Xintian] Liao -- 3. Japanese landscape painting and Taiwan : modernity, colonialism, and national identity / Toshio Watanabe -- 4. The demise of Oriental-style painting in Taiwan / Chuan-ying [Juanying] Yen -- Pt. 2. Images by and about women -- 5. The changing representation of women in modern Japanese paintings / Kaoru Kojima -- 6. Modernity, power, and gender : images of women by Taiwanese female artists under Japanese rule / Ming-chu [Mingzhu] Lai -- Pt. 3. Construction of Taiwan's vernacular landscape -- 7. Taiwaneseness in Japanese period architecture in Taiwan / Chao-ching [Chaoqing] Fu -- 8. Taiwanese aboriginal art and artifacts : entangled images of colonization and modernization / Chia-yu [Jiayu] Hu |
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9. Refracted colonial modernity : vernacularism in the development of modern Taiwanese crafts / Yuko Kikuchi |
| Summary |
"The nine essays collected here present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895 -1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal material culture, and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the "discovery" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of nangoku (southern country); the problematic idea of "local color," which was imposed by Japanese, and its relation to the "nativism" that was embraced by Taiwanese; the gendered modernity exemplified in the representation of Chinese/Taiwanese women; and the development of Taiwanese artifacts and crafts from colonial to postcolonial times, from their discovery, estheticization, and industrialization to their commodification by both the colonizers and the colonized." "Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan will be of interest to historians of Taiwan, China, and Japan; art historians of Chinese and Japanese art; and scholars of colonialism, decolonization, modernism, and modernity in general. Readers in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, visual culture, and women's studies will find its essays timely and highly informative."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- Taiwan -- 20th century.
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Art, Chinese -- Japanese influences.
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Imperialism in art.
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| Author |
Kikuchi, Yūko.
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| LC no. |
2007002859 |
| ISBN |
9780824830502 hardcover alkaline paper |
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