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  • Object Talks
    • Galeries Lafayette
    • Musée de l’Orangerie
    • Japanism, Musée des Arts Décoratifs
    • Throne, Musée du Louvre
    • Rouen Cathedral
    • Sculpture of Arhart, Musée Guimet
    • Peacock Textile, Musée Guimet
  • Attribution Challenges
    • Shōsai Ikkei, Thirty-six Amusing Views of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kyobashi Bridge, 1872
    • Toyohara Chikanobu, Tango – Boy’s Day Festival (May 5), 1885
    • Toyohara Kunichika, Viewing Cherry Blossoms, 1881
    • Yōshū Chikanobu, Preparation for an Evening Concert (from Onna reishiki no zu), 1893
    • Toyohara Kunichika, Thirty-Six Views of the Eastern Capital, 1865
    • Kobayashi Toshimitsu, The Horse that Saved Its Owner by Sacrificing itself after it understood its Master’s Words, 1882
    • Toyohara Chikanobu, Tango – Boy’s Day Festival (May 5), 1885
  • Abstracts of Final Papers
    • Beyond Blue: The Fluidity of Influence in Marines by Homer and Hokusai
    • Imperial Exposures: The Multiple Photographic Bodies of Rulers in the Meiji Period
    • The Porcelain Edge: The Question of Danish Japonisme
    • Reviving Rimpa: Kamisaka Sekka’s Books in the Tress Collection
    • A Pair of Six-Panel Screens and the Questions of the Ruin in Meiji Aesthetics
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A Pair of Six-Panel Screens and the Questions of the Ruin in Meiji Aesthetics

A Pair of Six-Panel Screens and the Questions of the Ruin in Meiji Aesthetics

by Alyssa Garcia | Jan 9, 2019 | Uncategorized

The intrinsic properties of ruins associated with Western ideology—their insistence on the acknowledgment of the passage of time, their commemorative assertions revivifying historical events within collective memory, their inspiration of stylistic eclecticism and...
ARTH 774 Japan and Paris, University of Pennsylvania