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Public Properties – Museums in Imperial Japan

Autor Noriko Aso
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 noi 2013
In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were introduced by government officials hoping to spur industrialization and self-disciplined public behavior, and to cultivate an "imperial public" loyal to the emperor. Japan's network of museums expanded along with its colonies. By the mid-1930s, the Japanese museum system had established or absorbed institutions in Taiwan, Korea, Sakhalin, and Manchuria. Not surprisingly, colonial views of Japanese imperialism differed from those promulgated by the Meiji government. Meanwhile, in Japan philanthropic and commercial museums were expanding, revising, and even questioning the state-sanctioned aesthetic canon. Public Properties describes how museums in Japan and its empire contributed to the reimagining of state and society during the Meiji era, despite vigorous disagreements about what was to be displayed and how—and by whom—it was to be seen.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822354291
ISBN-10: 0822354292
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 33 photographs, 6 tables
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

"Public Properties demonstrates that Japan's development of museums reflected its growth into a modern nation-state. Yet the book is more than a history of the museum in modern Japan. Noriko Aso offers a comprehensive account of how public and private institutions came together in the formation of national and imperial ideals, pointing out how museums in Japan's colonies were conceived to take advantage of local conditions while emphasizing the larger mission of empire."-Stefan Tanaka, author of New Times in Modern Japan"Public Properties will be an important book in Japanese history and intersecting fields including colonial studies, public culture, art history, and museum studies. Noriko Aso shows how integral a modern museum culture was to the formation of an 'imperial public' in Japan during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. She provides original perspectives on questions of collective identity and political culture during the imperial era and sheds new light on key issues in the field of modern Japanese history."—Leslie Pincus, author of Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuku Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics
"Public Properties demonstrates that Japan's development of museums reflected its growth into a modern nation-state. Yet the book is more than a history of the museum in modern Japan. Noriko Aso offers a comprehensive account of how public and private institutions came together in the formation of national and imperial ideals, pointing out how museums in Japan's colonies were conceived to take advantage of local conditions while emphasizing the larger mission of empire."-Stefan Tanaka, author of New Times in Modern Japan "Public Properties will be an important book in Japanese history and intersecting fields including colonial studies, public culture, art history, and museum studies. Noriko Aso shows how integral a modern museum culture was to the formation of an 'imperial public' in Japan during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. She provides original perspectives on questions of collective identity and political culture during the imperial era and sheds new light on key issues in the field of modern Japanese history." - Leslie Pincus, author of Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuku Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics

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Cuprins

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Stating the Public 13
2. Imperial Properties 63
3. Colonial Properties 95
4. The Private Publics of Ohara, Shibusawa, and Yanagi 127
5. Consuming Publics 169
Epilogue 203
Notes 223
Bibliography 279
Index 297