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Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art
Author: Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art
Author: Sherman E. LeeReflections of Reality in Japanese Art
Author: Marjorie WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Recollections and Reflections of a Japanese Artist
Author: Yoshio MarkinoPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021944610
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Markino's charming and insightful memoir offers a unique glimpse into the life of a Japanese artist living in Europe during the early 20th century. With a keen eye for detail and a deep love for his adopted home, Markino captures the beauty and excitement of London, Paris, and other European capitals as seen through the eyes of an outsider. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Japanese art and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Mondrian's Philosophy of Visual Rhythm
Author: Eiichi TosakiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9402411984
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This volume investigates the meaning of visual rhythm through Piet Mondrian’s unique approach to understanding rhythm in the compositional structure of painting, drawing reference from philosophy, aesthetics, and Zen culture. Its innovation lies in its reappraisal of a forgotten definition of rhythm as ‘stasis’ or ‘composition’ which can be traced back to ancient Greek thought. This conception of rhythm, the book argues, can be demonstrated in terms of pictorial strategy, through analysis of East Asian painting and calligraphy with which Greek thought on rhythm has identifiable commonalities. The book demonstrates how these ideas about rhythm draw together various threads of intellectual development in the visual arts that cross disparate aesthetic cultural practices. As an icon of early 20th Century Modernism, Mondrian’s neoplasticism is a serious painterly and philosophical achievement. In his painting, Mondrian was deeply influenced by Theosophy, which took its influence from Eastern aesthetics; particularly East Asian and Indian thought. However, Mondrian’s approach to visual rhythm was so idiosyncratic that his contribution to studies of visual rhythm is often under-recognized. This volume shows that a close inspection of Mondrian’s own writing, thinking and painting has much to tell scholars about how to understand a long forgotten aspect of visual rhythm. Rodin’s famous criticism of photography (“athlete-in-motion is forever frozen”) can be applied to Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope, the Futurists’ rendition of stroboscopic images, and Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase.” Through a comparative study between Mondrian’s painting and these seminal works, this volume initiates a new convention for the cognition of the surface of painting as visual rhythm. “Mondrian’s simultaneous emphasis on the static and the rhythmic is hardly fodder for a publicist. Eiichi Tosaki has taken on the challenge of elucidating Mondrian’s theories of rhythm, and particularly his conception of “static” rhythm. The result is a tour de force that will forever alter the reader’s encounter with the works of Mondrian.” Prof. Kathleen Higgins
Art of Japan
Author: Cleveland Museum of ArtPublisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9780940717848
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Cleveland Museum of Art has accumulated one of the premier collections of Japanese art in the West, and this publication brings together its best examples of Japanese art.
Form, Style, Tradition
Author: Kato ShuichiCritical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting
Author: Elizabeth LillehojPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824826994
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the West, classical art - inextricably linked to concerns of a ruling or dominant class - commonly refers to art with traditional themes and styles that resurrect a past golden era. Although art of the early Edo period (1600-1868) encompasses a spectrum of themes and styles, references to the past are so common that many Japanese art historians have variously described this period as a classical revival, era of classicism, or a renaissance. How did seventeenth-century artists and patrons imagine the past? Why did they so often select styles and themes from the court culture of the Heian period (794-1185)? Were references to the past something new, or were artists and patrons in previous periods equally interested in manners that came to be seen as classical? How did classical manners relate to other styles and themes found in Edo art? In considering such questions, the contributors to this volume hold that classicism has been an amorphous, changing concept in Japan - just as in the West. Troublesome in its ambiguity and implications, it cannot be separated from the political and ideological interests of those who have employed it over the years. The modern writers who firs
Japan Report
Author: Japonisme
Author: Northern Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher:
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Category : Japonism
Languages : en
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