The aesthetics of strangeness: eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan
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| 505 | 8 | |a "Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favor of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic eccentricity during the Edo period (1600-1868). It explains how, throughout the period, eccentricity (ki) and madness (kyo) developed and proliferated as subcultural aesthetics. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a By excavating several generations of early modern Japan's eccentric artists, it demonstrates that individualism and strangeness carried considerable moral and cultural value. Indeed, Edo society fetishized various marginal personae--the recluse, the loser, the depraved, the outsider, the saint, the mad genius--as local heroes and paragons of moral virtue. This book concludes that a confluence of intellectual, aesthetic, and social conditions enabled multiple concurrent heterodoxies to crystallize around strangeness as a prominent cultural force in Japanese society. A study of impressive historical and disciplinary breadth, The Aesthetics of Strangeness also makes extensive use of primary sources, many previously overlooked in existing English scholarship. Its coverage of the entire Edo period and engagement with both Chinese and native Japanese traditions reinterprets Edo-period tastes and perceptions of normalcy. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a By wedding art history to intellectual history, literature, aesthetics, and cultural practice, W. Puck Brecher strives for a broadly interdisciplinary perspective on this topic. Readers will discover that the individuals that form the backbone of his study lend credence to a new interpretation of Edo-period culture: a growing valuation of eccentricity within artistic and intellectual circles that exerted indelible impacts on mainstream society. The Aesthetics of Strangeness demystifies this emergent paradigm by illuminating the conditions and tensions under which certain rubrics of strangeness-- ki and kyo particularly--were appointed as aesthetic criteria. Its revision of early modern Japanese culture constitutes an important contribution to the field"--Publisher's description | |
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| contents | "Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favor of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic eccentricity during the Edo period (1600-1868). It explains how, throughout the period, eccentricity (ki) and madness (kyo) developed and proliferated as subcultural aesthetics. By excavating several generations of early modern Japan's eccentric artists, it demonstrates that individualism and strangeness carried considerable moral and cultural value. Indeed, Edo society fetishized various marginal personae--the recluse, the loser, the depraved, the outsider, the saint, the mad genius--as local heroes and paragons of moral virtue. This book concludes that a confluence of intellectual, aesthetic, and social conditions enabled multiple concurrent heterodoxies to crystallize around strangeness as a prominent cultural force in Japanese society. A study of impressive historical and disciplinary breadth, The Aesthetics of Strangeness also makes extensive use of primary sources, many previously overlooked in existing English scholarship. Its coverage of the entire Edo period and engagement with both Chinese and native Japanese traditions reinterprets Edo-period tastes and perceptions of normalcy. By wedding art history to intellectual history, literature, aesthetics, and cultural practice, W. Puck Brecher strives for a broadly interdisciplinary perspective on this topic. Readers will discover that the individuals that form the backbone of his study lend credence to a new interpretation of Edo-period culture: a growing valuation of eccentricity within artistic and intellectual circles that exerted indelible impacts on mainstream society. The Aesthetics of Strangeness demystifies this emergent paradigm by illuminating the conditions and tensions under which certain rubrics of strangeness-- ki and kyo particularly--were appointed as aesthetic criteria. Its revision of early modern Japanese culture constitutes an important contribution to the field"--Publisher's description Strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in seventeenth-century Japan -- Strange tastes: cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Eccentrics of recent times and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early nineteenth century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa |
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| spelling | Brecher, W. Puck 1965- Verfasser (DE-588)173424155 aut The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan W. Puck Brecher Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2013] © 2013 1 Online-Ressource (X, 434 Seiten) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Print version record "Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favor of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic eccentricity during the Edo period (1600-1868). It explains how, throughout the period, eccentricity (ki) and madness (kyo) developed and proliferated as subcultural aesthetics. By excavating several generations of early modern Japan's eccentric artists, it demonstrates that individualism and strangeness carried considerable moral and cultural value. Indeed, Edo society fetishized various marginal personae--the recluse, the loser, the depraved, the outsider, the saint, the mad genius--as local heroes and paragons of moral virtue. This book concludes that a confluence of intellectual, aesthetic, and social conditions enabled multiple concurrent heterodoxies to crystallize around strangeness as a prominent cultural force in Japanese society. A study of impressive historical and disciplinary breadth, The Aesthetics of Strangeness also makes extensive use of primary sources, many previously overlooked in existing English scholarship. Its coverage of the entire Edo period and engagement with both Chinese and native Japanese traditions reinterprets Edo-period tastes and perceptions of normalcy. By wedding art history to intellectual history, literature, aesthetics, and cultural practice, W. Puck Brecher strives for a broadly interdisciplinary perspective on this topic. Readers will discover that the individuals that form the backbone of his study lend credence to a new interpretation of Edo-period culture: a growing valuation of eccentricity within artistic and intellectual circles that exerted indelible impacts on mainstream society. The Aesthetics of Strangeness demystifies this emergent paradigm by illuminating the conditions and tensions under which certain rubrics of strangeness-- ki and kyo particularly--were appointed as aesthetic criteria. Its revision of early modern Japanese culture constitutes an important contribution to the field"--Publisher's description Strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in seventeenth-century Japan -- Strange tastes: cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Eccentrics of recent times and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early nineteenth century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa 1600 - 1868 fast Geschichte 1600-1868 gnd rswk-swf ART / History / General bisacsh HISTORY / Asia / Japan bisacsh Aesthetics, Japanese fast Art, Japanese / Edo period fast Eccentrics and eccentricities fast Geschichte Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Eccentrics and eccentricities Japan Aesthetics, Japanese History Exzentrizität (DE-588)4340863-1 gnd rswk-swf Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd rswk-swf Asien Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 g Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 s Exzentrizität (DE-588)4340863-1 s Geschichte 1600-1868 z 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Brecher, W. Puck The aesthetics of strangeness Druck-Ausgabe 0-8248-3666-9 (DE-604)BV041281506 Erscheint auch als Brecher, W. Puck The aesthetics of strangeness Druck-Ausgabe 978-0-8248-3666-5 (DE-604)BV041281506 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750785 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Brecher, W. Puck 1965- The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan "Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pendulum has swung again, this time in favor of viewing these oddballs as failures and dropouts without lasting cultural significance. This work corrects the disciplinary (and exclusionary) nature of such interpretations by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic eccentricity during the Edo period (1600-1868). It explains how, throughout the period, eccentricity (ki) and madness (kyo) developed and proliferated as subcultural aesthetics. By excavating several generations of early modern Japan's eccentric artists, it demonstrates that individualism and strangeness carried considerable moral and cultural value. Indeed, Edo society fetishized various marginal personae--the recluse, the loser, the depraved, the outsider, the saint, the mad genius--as local heroes and paragons of moral virtue. This book concludes that a confluence of intellectual, aesthetic, and social conditions enabled multiple concurrent heterodoxies to crystallize around strangeness as a prominent cultural force in Japanese society. A study of impressive historical and disciplinary breadth, The Aesthetics of Strangeness also makes extensive use of primary sources, many previously overlooked in existing English scholarship. Its coverage of the entire Edo period and engagement with both Chinese and native Japanese traditions reinterprets Edo-period tastes and perceptions of normalcy. By wedding art history to intellectual history, literature, aesthetics, and cultural practice, W. Puck Brecher strives for a broadly interdisciplinary perspective on this topic. Readers will discover that the individuals that form the backbone of his study lend credence to a new interpretation of Edo-period culture: a growing valuation of eccentricity within artistic and intellectual circles that exerted indelible impacts on mainstream society. The Aesthetics of Strangeness demystifies this emergent paradigm by illuminating the conditions and tensions under which certain rubrics of strangeness-- ki and kyo particularly--were appointed as aesthetic criteria. Its revision of early modern Japanese culture constitutes an important contribution to the field"--Publisher's description Strange interpretations -- Contexts of strangeness in seventeenth-century Japan -- Strange tastes: cultural eccentricity and its vanguard -- Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies -- Eccentrics of recent times and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric -- Strangeness in the early nineteenth century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion -- Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa ART / History / General bisacsh HISTORY / Asia / Japan bisacsh Aesthetics, Japanese fast Art, Japanese / Edo period fast Eccentrics and eccentricities fast Geschichte Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Eccentrics and eccentricities Japan Aesthetics, Japanese History Exzentrizität (DE-588)4340863-1 gnd Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd |
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| title | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan |
| title_auth | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan |
| title_exact_search | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan |
| title_full | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan W. Puck Brecher |
| title_fullStr | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan W. Puck Brecher |
| title_full_unstemmed | The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan W. Puck Brecher |
| title_short | The aesthetics of strangeness |
| title_sort | the aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern japan |
| title_sub | eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan |
| topic | ART / History / General bisacsh HISTORY / Asia / Japan bisacsh Aesthetics, Japanese fast Art, Japanese / Edo period fast Eccentrics and eccentricities fast Geschichte Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Eccentrics and eccentricities Japan Aesthetics, Japanese History Exzentrizität (DE-588)4340863-1 gnd Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd |
| topic_facet | ART / History / General HISTORY / Asia / Japan Aesthetics, Japanese Art, Japanese / Edo period Eccentrics and eccentricities Geschichte Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Eccentrics and eccentricities Japan Aesthetics, Japanese History Exzentrizität Ästhetik Asien Japan |
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