BACHELOR JAPANISTS by Christopher Reed ( 9780231175746 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

BACHELOR JAPANISTS
JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND WESTERN MASCULINITIES

By:

Christopher Reed

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0231175744

ISBN 13:

9780231175746

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Publisher:

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 November, 2016

Series:

Modernist Latitudes

Pages:

440

Synopsis:

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s.Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in turn-of-the-century Boston; and the mid-twentieth-century circles of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a groundbreaking integration of well-known and forgotten episodes and personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional scholarly investments in the heroism of avant-garde accomplishment and ideals of cultural authenticity.

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95 b&w illustrations

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Columbia University Press

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