Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970 [Hardcover]

Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter (Editor), Hellmut Seemann (Author), Fuji Hiroaki (Author), Sakai Tadayasu (Author), Ingrid Mssinger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2000

A comprehensive survey of the development of an independent modernism in Japanese art from the first abstract works at the beginning of the century to artistic approaches in the post-war period.

Featuring more than 100 works by 26 Japanese artists, this volume is the first extensive documentation of the development of Japanese painting into a uniquely Japanese form of modernisma modernism which Japan developed in the course of its coming to terms with outside influences, and which is both contemporary and self-sufficient. The works are discussed and complemented by highly informative essays by well-known art scholars.

120 color plates and 90 in black-and-white

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This exhibition catalog extensively documents the growth of Japanese painting as it absorbed new forms and reshaped uniquely Japanese ones on its journey into modernism. Curator Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter, a scholar of Japanese art, examines the special features of this art, represented by 100 works of 26 Japanese artists. Other specialists in the field provide an in-depth view of abstraction, surrealism, and other features of Japanese modern painting during the decades covered by this exhibition. The essays explore the artistic development of Japanese painting during its encounter with the West as well as in its struggle to maintain traditional Japanese values. The book lists the activities of each artist featured in the book, but there is no index or bibliography. Handsomely made, this volume is a welcome addition to the art collections of both public and academic libraries."Lucia S. Chen, NYPL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Edition Stemmle (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 390816186X
• ISBN-13: 978-3908161868
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,923,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five and a half stars, March 3, 2007

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Uncle Borges (Via Lungomare 6) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970 (Hardcover)

One of two or three favorite art-books of mine; indispensible resource on Japanese moderns, nearly all of them "abstract" (mostly painters). Perhaps it is mixing pears with apples, but Japanese abstract Moderns to my taste surpass almost entirely the famed NYC abstract expressionist grouping (and its derivative inheritors such as "second generation" etc.); with the possible exception of Franz Kline. (Maybe also Mark Rothko to a certain extent).
So, next time if someone asks you 'You dig Hisao Domoto?' 'Why certainly, Hisao is one of my favorite painters'. Watch them look up to the humble pedestal of your ultra esoteric coolness...

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Must" reading for students of modern Japanese art., July 3, 2000

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This review is from: Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970 (Hardcover)

Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter's Japanese Modern Art covers Japanese painting from 1910-1970, featuring over a hundred works by almost thirty Japanese artists and providing the first extensive documentation of the development of Japanese painting into a unique form of modernism. Works are presented with essays by art historians and cover the basics of how art has reflected changes in Japanese traditions.