Aesthetic life

• Verfasst von: Mizuta Lippit, Miya Elise [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Aesthetic life
• Titelzusatz: beauty and art in modern Japan
• Verf.angabe: Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London
• Verlag: Harvard University Asia Center
• Jahr: 2019
• Umfang: xv, 315 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 26 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 400
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Fussnoten: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97516-3
• ISBN: 0-674-97516-2
• ISBN: 978-0-674-23730-8
• ISBN: 0-674-23730-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)Japan / (s)Ästhetik / (s)Schönheit / (s)Meiji-Zeit / (s)Frau / (s)Schönheitsideal / (s)Kunst / (s)Literatur
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LO 89590
• K10plus-PPN: 1067383298

Abstract

"Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"--

Abstract

Introduction: On first becoming a painting -- All too aesthetically: the bijin in the era of Japonisme -- "Fair Japan": art, war and the bijin at the Saint Louis World's Fair, 1904 -- True bijin: the debate on truth and beauty -- Bijin graphic: illustrated magazines and the popular ideology of beauty -- "Short-lived beauty": illustration and the bijin heroines of literary realism -- Living works of art: Soseki's aesthetic heroines -- Bijinga: the Nihonga genre and the fashioning of material beauty -- Coda