Masaaki Morishita

The Empty Museum

Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. Focusing on 'empty museums', one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums, Morishita shows how they developed, in relation to socio-cultural conditions at certain periods in modern Japanese history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781138379015
• ISBN-10: 1138379018
• Artikelnr.: 57050369

Autorenporträt

Masaaki Morishita is a Project Coordinator at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan and a Visiting Researcher at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Transculturation and Bourdieu's field theory
The early development of the field of Bijutsu: the Bunten and the art group
The birth of the regional art museum: art groups and the avant-garde
Post-war development: curators and museums of modern art
Struggles between the local artist and the curator
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.