| Culture in Common: Wang Yiting's Art of Exchange with Japan Contributor(s): Davis, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004271384 ISBN-13: 9789004271388 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $133.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 759.951 |
| Series: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Culture in Common explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist account of a Chinese artist's engagement with Japan. Crossing national and disciplinary divides, Walter Davis illuminates how Wang Yiting (1867-1938) mediated Sino-Japanese cooperation in fields to which he contributed importantly--art, business, philanthropy, and religion--adapting traditional forms of expression to projects and concerns of a modern, international milieu. Grounded in the Japanese archive, Culture in Common expands our understanding of Wang Yiting's oeuvre and artistic practices, reveals origins, accomplishments, promises, and limitations of the cross-cultural exchanges he espoused in an era of increasing international tensions, and draws attention to the historical importance and shifting historiographical fortunes of twentieth-century Sino-Japanese visual culture. |