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1013904
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b768274
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Kikuchi, Yūko.
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Japanese modernisation and Mingei Theory : : cultural nationalism and oriental orientalism /\ Yuko Kikuchi.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: RoutledgeCurzon,, 2004.
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1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) :: illustrations, 1 map
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0203644190
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: 0203687965
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: 1134429568
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: 1280036745
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: 9780203644195
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: 9780203687963
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: 9781134429561
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: 9781280036743
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0415297907
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0415297907
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6610036748
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9780415297905
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9786610036745
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-298) and index.
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| Contents
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Orientalism: the foundation of Mingei theory. Yanagi's claims to originality ; The Oriental-Occidental hybrid of philosophy and religion ; Utopian colonism, primitivism and orientalism ; 'Art of the people' and medievalism: Ruskin, Morris and Japanese peasant art movements ; Japanese tea masters. -- Appropriation of Orientalism. The formation of Mingei theory ; Mingei theory: the classification and standardisation of beauty ; Mingei projects: repositioned in a modern context ; Modernity and Japanese cultural and national identity ; Arts and crafts in modern Japan: export craft industry and modern craft movements ; Cultural nationalism in art: invention of 'Japaneseness' and 'Japanese style' ; National discourse by modernist Orientalist designers ; Yanagi's nationalist discourse on 'quentessential Japaneseness' and Japan's North-East (Tōhoku) -- 'Oriental Orientalism'. The creation of 'Others' and Oriental Orientalism ; Korea: the beauty of sadness ; The Okinawans and the Ainu: archetypal beauty of Japan in the peripheral border with the Orient ; Taiwan and North-East China/Manchuria: the beauty of the Orient and Greater East Asia ; Yanagi's Oriental Orientalism. -- Reverse Orientalism: the development of Mingei theory into national and international Modernism. Mystification of Mingei in Zen Buddhist aesthetics ; Mingei as modern visual representation of tea aesthetics ; Mingei theory for studio crafts: the predicament of the Mingei-style artist-craftsmen ; Mingei for national design: the Mingei-style for 'Japanese Modern' design and Kurafuto ; The foundation and deconstruction of the 'Leach tradition' for British studio craft philosophy ; Art or craft.
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This new interpretation of the Mingei movement will appeal to scholars of Japanese art history as well as those with interests in cultural identity in non-Western cultures.
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Yanagi, Muneyoshi,1889-1961-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yanagi, Muneyoshi,1889-1961
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Culture-- History-- 20th century.
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Folk art-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.
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Identity (Psychology)-- Japan.
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ART-- Folk Outsider Art.
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CRAFTS HOBBIES-- Folkcrafts.
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Culture.
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Folk art.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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745/.0952
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NK1071.K536 2004eb
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