Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II
Edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II
Edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen
The present volume examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth. Contributors undertook a broad interpretation of visual modernity to include visual dimensions of human endeavor traditionally seen as outside of artistic production in order to encourage exploration of new and understudied materials across disciplinary boundaries. This volume not only provides an important background for the growth of modern visual culture in East Asia, but also is a collection of seminal research on specific topics that have a broad impact upon present-day visual arts of China and Japan.
Contributors: Susan L. Burns, Hong Zaixin, David L. Howell, Dorothy Ko, Barak Kushner, Lai Delin, Ellen Johnston Laing, Julie Christ Oakes, Hyung Il Pai, Jennifer Purtle, Hans Thomsen, and Chia-ling Yang.
Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II