Taishō chic

By Sharon Minichiello, Kendall H. Brown, Sharon A. Minichiello

Subjects: Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions, Art, Japan, Art, japanese, Art & Art Instruction, Exhibitions, Arts, united states, Women's studies, Japanese Art, First World War, 1914-1918, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Inter-war period, 1918-1939, c 1900 - c 1914, Oriental art, Art styles: c First World War to 1960, Asian, Art styles: c 1900 to First World War, Women in art, Western influences, Art deco

Description: "Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japanese tradition. The nihonga paintings, woodblock prints, textiles, and domestic artifacts discussed and illustrated here come primarily from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which organized the exhibition documented by this book. Many of these works have never been published and several major paintings, exhibited in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s then lost after the war, are brought to light here for the first time in decades. This catalogue not only presents newly discovered works but also, in bringing together a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, reconstructs the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho Chic."--BOOK JACKET.