East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia. This pioneering study proposes an important new framework that focuses on the relationship between China, Japan, and Korea. By reconsidering existing concepts of ‘East Asia’, and examining the porousness of boundaries in East Asian art history, the study proposes a new model for understanding trans-local artistic production – in particular the mechanics of interactions – at the turn of the 20th century.

ContentsList of figuresNotes on contributors AcknowledgementsNotes on translation and namesIntroductionPart I Constructing the Idea of East Asian Art1 Shimao Arata, Reconsidering the History of East Asian Painting from China (chugoku kaiga) and Chinese-style painting (kara-e) in Japan2 Itakura Masaaki, The Imperial Treasures of the Shosoin and the Collections of the Tang Emperors3 Sato Doshin, Overcoming Modernity: Toward a Concept of ‘East Asian Art History’Part II New Ways of Looking at Others4 Miura Atsushi, The Triangle of Modern JapaneseYoga: Paris, Tokyo, and East Asia5 Min-jong Shin, 'Marginal Man' Pai Un-soung (1900–1978): His European Experience, His Views, and His Art6 Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, Reinventing Localism, Tradition, and Identity: The Role of Modern Okinawan Painting (1930s–1960s)7 Kitazawa Noriaki, The Evolution and Modernization of the Sculpture Genre in East Asia According to the Japanese Example8 Adachi Gen, War and Pornography in East AsiaPart III Translation of Art within East Asia9 Aida Wong, Chinese Seal Carving in Modern Japan: Qian Shoutie's Relationship with Hashimoto Kansetsu10 Tamaki Maeda, 'National Painting' Unbound: Modernizing Ink Painting in the Sino-Japanese Art World11 Junia Roh, Korean Lacquerwork Craftsmen Who Went to Japan: Change and Innovation in Korean Lacquerwork During the Colonial Period12 Liu Yu-jen, The Concept of Art in the Meishu Congshu: From Foreign Loan to National TraditionGlossary Index

Eriko Tomizawa-Kay is Lecturer in Japanese, University of East Anglia and Academic Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Cultures.Toshio Watanabe is Professor for Japanese Arts and Cultural Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of East Anglia and Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Design, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts London.