Meiji

Title	Challenging past and present - The metamorphosis of the nineteenth century japanese art
Author	Ellen P. Conant
Description	ISBN: 978-0-8248-2937-7 - 292 pages Hard cover P ublished in 2006 by the University of Hawaii press book.
Content	The complex and coherenrt development of Japanese art during the course of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by a political event: the Meiji restoration of 1868. Scholars of both the preceeding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868-1912) eras have shunned the decades borfering this arbitrary divide, thus creating inventiveness and the latter as one threatened by Meiji reforms and indescriminate Westernization and modernization. Challenging past and present demonstrate that the period 1840 - 1890 as seen peogressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turn made possible the creative achievements ofthe twentieth century.
	Interesting for the student of Japanese Art. Little part in devoted to ceramic. The interest for kutani collectors is mainly regarding Yokohama development in the ceramic industry.
Price	New Retails price around $55