Title: | Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680–1980 |
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Author List: | Frank Feltens (ed.); with contributions by Paul Berry, Michiyo Morioka |
Publisher: | National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution; in association with Hirmer Publishers |
Publication Date: | September 19, 2024 (forthcoming) |
Publication Type: | book |
Format: | print (hardcover) |
Pages: | 304 |
Illustrations: | 125 |
ISBN: | 9783777442662 |
Collection Area(s): | Japanese Art |
Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680–1980
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Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art examines Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan’s period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. It focuses on ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and as an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalog entries highlighting unusual artworks revealing Japanese artists’ complex responses to Chinese art, history, and culture. Imagined Neighbors challenges the established narrative of an exclusively Western-inspired modern Japan by offering a more nuanced approach to understanding the country’s struggle with reconciling the old with the new as it reinvented itself into a modern nation-state.
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Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980
View ExhibitionMarch 16–September 15, 2024
Imagined Neighbors presents Japanese artworks from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, given to the National Museum of Asian Art between 2018 and 2022. The paintings and calligraphy in this exhibition fuse reality with imagination and remain important to understanding the continuing, complex engagement of Japanese artists with China, to them both a real and an imagined place.