Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Description
The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Keywords
ArtHistoryAsiaSocial HistoryJapanModernPhilosophyAesthetics
2014Book
Author(s)M. Chaiklin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137363329
LanguageEnglish
