Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual FieldJoshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, Maribeth Graybill In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay Gender in Japanese Art, which introduced feminist theory to Japanese art. This is followed by a closer look at a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the production of bijin (beautiful women) prints within the world of Edoperiod advertising. A rare homoerotic picture-book is used to extrapolate the grammar of desire as represented in late seventeenth-century Edo. In the modern period, contributors consider the introduction to Meiji Japan of the Western nude and oil-painting and examine Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the role of one of its famous artists. The book then shifts its focus to an examination of paintings produced for the Japanese-sponsored annual salons held in colonial Korea. The post-war period comes under scrutiny in a study of the novel Woman in the Dunes and its film adaptation. The critical discourse that surrounded women artists of the late twentieth-century - the Super Girls of Art - i |
Contents
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IV | 13 |
V | 31 |
VI | 45 |
VII | 67 |
VIII | 85 |
IX | 115 |
XI | 137 |
XII | 151 |
XIII | 175 |
XIV | 200 |
XV | 225 |
XVI | 263 |
XVII | 279 |
XVIII | 281 |
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