Aesthetic life: beauty and art in modern Japan

By:

Elise, Miya

Contributor(s):

Lippit, Mizuta

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublication details: Boston Harvard University Press 2019Description: xv, 315 pISBN:

9780674237308

Subject(s): DDC classification:

IJRC-IIMN 701.170952 M4A3

Summary: "Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Nagpur General Stacks	IJRC-IIMN	IJRC-IIMN 701.170952 M4A3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMN-002405

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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-298) and index.

"Examines how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art"--

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