Description: Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco by Brown, Kendall H. and Sharon A. Minichiello; Essays Honolulu, HI: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001. Exhibition catalogue very good paperbound wraps ; 176 pages with index; loaded with illustrations. The Taisho period, loosely the first three decades of the twentieth century, was a dynamic era in Japan. On one hand, it spawned social liberalism and political radicalism; on the other, it generated the social conservatism and cultural nativism that grew into the ultra-nationalism of 1937-1945. In art, it produced an infatuation with Western modernism as well as a new exploration of traditional aesthetics. Between these dramatic polarities was a rich middle ground of cultural synthesis and symbiosis in which Western concepts of modernity and nostalgia for Japanese tradition seamlessly merged or creatively contrasted. These values are witnessed in the Art Deco style,...
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Release Year: 2005
Literary Movement: Modernism
Book Title: Taisho Chic : Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Honolulu Academy of T.H.E. Arts
Topic: Asian / General, Asian / Japanese, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Publication Year: 2002
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 29.5 Oz
Item Length: 10.3 in
Author: Sharon Minichiello, Kendall H. Brown
Item Width: 10.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
