Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts by Hiroshi Nara

Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

Hiroshi Nara

269 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

art informative reflective medium-paced

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Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt thr...

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