The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) - Hardcover

Screech, Timon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521461065 ISBN 13: 9780521461061

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

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This is the first study to consider the introduction of Western technology in the eighteenth century. Timon Screech demonstrates that the introduction of Western visual devices had a profound impact on Japanese notions regarding the faculty of sight.

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'Timon Screech's unusual and original book describes the Japanese reaction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to newly-imported Western scientific knowledge ...the narrative is dense, and though frequently highly entertaining, is hard work. This is certainly not a book for the casual dipping, but a most serious and original narrative.' Oliver Impey, Apollo

'In this ambitious and stimulating book Timon Screech explores the impact of the West upon Japanese attitudes and perceptions in the last decades of the eighteenth century.' Burlington Magazine

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This is the first study to consider the introduction of Western technology in the eighteenth century, when, it has been assumed, Japan continued to isolate itself from external influence. Timon Screech demonstrates that the introduction of such Western equipment as lenses, mirrors, and glass had a profound impact on Japanese notions regarding the faculty of sight. The enormity of this paradigm shift was, moreover, felt less in Japanese scientific inquiry than in art and popular culture, where the devices were often depicted and used metaphorically, as commentary on the prevailing social norms. Based on archival sources, here published for the first time, this study also sheds new light on Japanese art and its relation to the West; the relationship of science to art and popular culture; and the autonomy and internationalisation of Japanese culture.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521461065
• ISBN 13: 9780521461061
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 321