Recovering the orient : artists, scholars, appropriations / edited by Andrew Gerstle and Anthony Milner.
By: Gerstle, C Andrew
Contributor(s): Milner, Anthony C
Language: English Publisher: Chur, Reading : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.Description: ix, 365p. : ill., facsims., music ; 25cm.ISBN: 3718656876ISSN: 1055-2464| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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British Museum | Africa Oceania and the Americas | Open Shelves | KW [GER-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | M27124 |
"The essays in this volume were presented in draft form at two conferences held in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University" on the theme "Europe and the Orient" (cf. Preface, p.365).
Includes bibl. footnotes.
Contents: Recovering the exotic: debating Said / A. Milner, C.A. Gerstle; Japanese art, Monet and the formation of impressionism / D. Bromfield; Debussy and the Orient / Roy Howat; Alienation and the dialectics of acculturation: Brecht and the aesthetics of Chinese painting / A. Tatlow; Raffles and Daniell / A. Forge; Chinese space in Chinese painting / John Hay; "Landscape" in early Java / Tony Day; Text as performance: tragedy in Japanese drama / C.A. Gerstle; The emergence of the printed book in Japan / P.F. Kornicki; "Popular art" and the Javanese tradition / C. Geertz; Who decides and who speaks? Shutaisei and the west in postwar Japan / Masao Miyoshi; The rise of concert Shamisen music in 19th century Japan / W.P. Malm; Aboard two ships: western assumptions on medium and genre in Malay oral and written traditions / A. Sweeney; "Extravagant art" and Balinese ritual / J.A. Boon.