Making Modern JapaneseStyle Painting – Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

by Chelsea Foxwell (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2015

  $63.42

  The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of popularity. This volume explores the visual characteristics and social functions of nihonga and traces its relationship to the past, its viewers, and emerging notions of the modern Japanese state.