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In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art
Alicia Volk
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Description for In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art
Hardback. A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
In "Pursuit of Universalism" is the first comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. In this groundbreaking work, which is also the inaugural recipient of the Phillips Book Prize (awarded by the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art), Alicia Volk constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Volk places Yorozu at the forefront of a movement that sought to define Japanese art's role in the world by ... Read more
In "Pursuit of Universalism" is the first comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. In this groundbreaking work, which is also the inaugural recipient of the Phillips Book Prize (awarded by the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art), Alicia Volk constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Volk places Yorozu at the forefront of a movement that sought to define Japanese art's role in the world by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
The Phillips Book Prize Series
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520259522
SKU
V9780520259522
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About Alicia Volk
Alicia Volk is Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland and is the author of Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement and the coauthor of Japan and Paris: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Modern Era.
Reviews for In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art
"Definitively illuminates a new horizon for the field of modern Asian art... It is precisely what the discipline needs."
Chun-Wa Chan, The University of Hong Kong Journal Of Oriental Studies "Forceful and eloquent... A substantially rigorous and provocative probe into the search for universalism in a differentiated world."
Alice Y. Tseng International Journal Of Asian Studies "Deserves to ... Read more
Chun-Wa Chan, The University of Hong Kong Journal Of Oriental Studies "Forceful and eloquent... A substantially rigorous and provocative probe into the search for universalism in a differentiated world."
Alice Y. Tseng International Journal Of Asian Studies "Deserves to ... Read more