Identifying Relevant Books
Use the Tripod Books and More catalog to look for relevant titles owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.
The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.
japan* ("visual culture" OR "art and society") [Keyword Search]
art chinese 20th century [Subject Search sorted for the newest publications first]
motion pictures japan history [Subject Search]
photography artistic (china OR "east asia*") [Subject Search]
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Relevant Books (selections in Moodle)
The articles and chapters found on the Moodle page come from the following books. When you click on a book, check and see the relevant Subject headings and see what other books come up when you click on that. For instance, Photography > Japan > History yields 3 results.
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Asian Art Now
by ISBN: 9781580932981Publication Date: 2010-09-28This authoritative, wide-ranging volume surveys the contemporary art of Asia, examining key issues and themes: art's relationship to history and tradition, its engagement with politics, society, and the state, its exploration of consumerism and popular culture, and its interplay with the urban environment. -
Japan and Paris
by ISBN: 0937426644Publication Date: 2004-07-01Japan and Paris demonstrates the deep cross-cultural nature of art in Japan from about 1880 to 1930. Illustrated with masterpieces from Japanese collections by Matisse, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Corot, Cezanne, and Monet, it explores the history of collecting Western art in Japan and its influence on Japanese modern art. -
Exhibiting Cultures
by ISBN: 1560980214Publication Date: 1991-05-17Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers. -
Contemporary Art in Asia
by ISBN: 0810963310Publication Date: 1997-01-01The catalogue of a travelling exhibition opening in October 1996 in New York, featuring 27 Asian artists from five countries. Key topics involve politics, religion, and women's issues and it covers some 60 installations, paintings and sculptures. Documentation is included on each artist. -
Photography and Japan
by ISBN: 9781861897978Publication Date: 2011-05-15In Photography and Japan, Karen Fraser argues that the diversity of styles, subjects, and functions of Japanese photography precludes easy categorization along nationalized lines. Instead, she shows that the development of photography within Japan is best understood by examining its close relationship with the country's dramatic cultural, political, and social history. -
Since Meiji
by ISBN: 9780824834418Publication Date: 2011-12-01The Japanese visual arts since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868) have produced an outpouring of art created in a bewildering number of genres and spanning a wide range of aims and
accomplishments. Since Meiji is the first sustained effort in English to discuss in any depth a time when Japan, eager to join in the larger cultural developments in Europe and the U.S., went through a visual revolution. Indeed, this study of the visual arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries suggests a fresh history of modern Japanese culture-one that until now has not been widely visible or thoroughly analyzed outside that country. -
Into Performance
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ISBN: 0813535204Publication Date: 2005-04-28Into Performance fills a critical gap in both American and Japanese art history as it brings to light the historical significance of five women artists-Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota. Unusually courageous and self-determined, they were among the first Japanese women to leave their country-and its male-dominated, conservative art world-to explore the artistic possibilities in New York. They not only benefited from the New York art scene, however, they played a major role in the development of international performance and intermedia art by bridging avant garde movements in Tokyo and New York. -
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle
by ISBN: 1403970513Publication Date: 2005-12-01Anime From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle is the updated edition of Susan Napier's groundbreaking bestseller, Anime from Akira to Mononoke. It is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime, and these are legion since Spirited Away won the Oscar for best animated film in 2002. Famed director Hayao Miyazaki's film proved that anime was much more than cartoons for children or a ploy for selling trading cards, and Napier demonstrates how anime often portrays important social and cultural themes in a sophisticated yet entertaining way. With new chapters on Spirited Away and other recent releases, including the forthcoming Howl's Moving Castle, this updated edition will be the authoritative source on anime for an exploding market of viewers who want to know more. -
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Being Modern in Japan
by ISBN: 0824823605Publication Date: 2000-01-01This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature. -
Challenging Past and Present
ISBN: 0824829379Publication Date: 2006-03-01The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during thecourse of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by apolitical event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both thepreceding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868-1912) erashave shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creatingan art-historical void that the former view as a period of waningtechnical and creative inventiveness and the latter as one threatenedby Meiji reforms and indiscriminate westernization and modernization.Challenging Past and Present, to the contrary, demonstrates that theperiod 1840-1890, as seen progressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turnmade possible the creative achievements of the twentieth century -
Shin Hanga
by ISBN: 9780764940392Publication Date: 2007-01-01The shin hanga (new print) movement flourished in Japan for almost fifty years after being set in motion and nurtured by publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885?1962). Employing the traditional ?ukiyo-e quartet a production system consisting of artists, carvers, printers, and publishers?shin hanga attracted Western as well as native artists. The studio teams created woodblock prints that updated traditional ukiyo-e (?pictures of the floating world?) prints by including Kabuki actor portraits, ?beauties, ? and landscapes and other nature themes, often birds and flowers. With lavish illustrations and expert commentary, Shin Hanga: The New Print Movement of Japan details the shin hanga movement and presents splendid reproductions of works by its principal artists. -
Art in Modern Culture byISBN: 0064331288Publication Date: 1993-01-01Contains 33 essays and articles by various contributors. The history of modern art and culture since the 1960s is a history of ideas, values and beliefs. It is also about the struggle between various agents vying for intellectual prominence and power.
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Japanese Cinema
by ISBN: 0195849507Publication Date: 1990-04-19Donald Richie, whose earlier works have done so much to introduce Japanese cinema to the West, has here written the first introduction to Japanese film. Written in a highly accessible style, this up-to-date history offers a study of those qualities which make a film distinctly Japanese. It will be an invaluable resource to students of film appreciation, as well as to readers with an interest in Japan. -
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
by ISBN: 0691008221Publication Date: 1988-08-21Over the last two decades, Yasujiro Ozu has won international recognition as a major filmmaker. Combining biographical information with discussions of the films' aesthetic strategies and cultural significance, David Bordwell questions the popular image of Ozu as the traditional Japanese artisan and examines the aesthetic nature and functions of his cinema. -
Cinematic Landscapes
by ISBN: 0292720874Publication Date: 1994-01-01China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmmaking in the two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing." This first major study of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese art and film brings together writers from the United States, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan, including Japan's well-known film critic Sato Tadao and Beijing Film Academy's Ni Zhen, screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated film Raise the Red Lantern. The essays discuss the influence of the traditional arts, including scroll painting and printmaking, on Chinese and Japanese cinema and demonstrate that national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions. -
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Avant Garde in Exhibition
by ISBN: 0810936372Publication Date: 1994-08-20Through photographs of personalities, installations and works of art and in a text that recounts the artistic thinking that surrounded each new movement, this book provides an overview of progressive art in the 20th century through more than 20 important exhibitions. -
Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
by ISBN: 0824825721Publication Date: 2003-01-01In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work.
