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Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao
Michael Lucken
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Description for Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao
Hardback. Translator(s): Simkin, Francesca. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts. Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres-painting, film, photography, and animation-Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914-1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), ... Read more
The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts. Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres-painting, film, photography, and animation-Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914-1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172929
SKU
V9780231172929
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About Michael Lucken
Michael Lucken is a professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. He is the author of L'Art du Japon au vingtieme siecle (Japanese Art in the Twentieth Century, 2001) and a coeditor of Japan's Postwar (2011).
Reviews for Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao
Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts is a sophisticated and complex meditation on the nature of Japanese creativity and. by extension, on the nature of artistic creativity in general. Michael Lucken's writing is a performance, and it is dazzling.
Thomas Rimer, coeditor, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature A well-written and rigorously researched analysis that is grounded in ... Read more
Thomas Rimer, coeditor, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature A well-written and rigorously researched analysis that is grounded in ... Read more