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(★)(Translated by Matt Treyvaud／ How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, TAKASHINA Shuuji, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty.／ The first section, ´Methods of Japanese Art´, uses examples and cross-cultural comparisons to elucidate the techniques by which Japanese artists cultivated their unique approach. These include roving rather than fixed perspective, the ´aesthetic of negation´ --excising the unnecessary to emphasize what remains-- and the ´trailing bough´ motif, which evokes a world beyond the work´s borders and influenced Western artists such as Monet.／ In the second section, ´East-West Encounters´, Takashina examines the history of cultural interaction between Japan and the West from the early modern period on and its influence on the art of both. The third section, ´Passing Beauty, Returning Memory´, contains essays on Japanese culture more broadly, including its preference for recurring forms over fixed monuments and its tradition of combining multiple seasons in a single image.／ ´Japanese Art in Perspective´ is a guide not only to the art of Japan but to the essence of its spiritual culture.／ ◆Takashina Shuji is an art historian, art critic, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, director of the Ohra Museum of Art, and president of the Japan Art Academy.／ Born 1932, he graduated from the University of Tokyo´s College of Arts and Sciences and went on to study modern Western art history at the Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre. His previously held positions include professor at the University of Tokyo and director general of the National Museum of Western Art. He received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2000, was named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 2001, and was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize and Imperial Prize from the Japan Art Academy in 2002. He was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2005, and inducted into the Order of Culture in 2012. In 2015, he was appointed to the Japan Art Academy, and in 2020 he was made academy president. ▼CONTENTS／ ●PART I : METHODS OF JAPANESE ART／ 1.The Character of Japanese Aesthetics／ 2.Object and Form／ 3.Forms of Seeing, East and West／ 4.The ´Trailing Bough´ Motif／ 5.The Art of the Journey／ 6.The Principle of Ornamentation／ ●PART II : EAST-WEST ENCOUNTERS／ 7.East and West in Meiji Painting／ 8.The Avant-Garde in Japanese Art／ 9.Japanese Academism／ 10.Some Problems of ´Japonisme´／ ●PART III : PASSING BEAUTY, RETURNING MEMORY／ 11.The Aesthetics of Transition (The Four Seasons and the Japanese Sense of Beauty)／ 12.´The Color of the Flowers´ (Symphonies of Image and Word)／ 13.The Heritage of Memory (Intangible Culture as Japanese Tradition)) |
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