Distant terrains and decorative fictions : describing Japan in Second-Empire France
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation reveals how Japanese imports participated in a new discourse on objects in 1860s Paris. Looking to the specific political and aesthetic context of the Second Empire, this project reconsiders how the descriptive practices of the 1860s determined the early French encounter with Japanese things. Description places new attention on the communicative properties of inanimate objects and dominates the aesthetic and commercial culture of Second-Empire France. This culture of description materializes in naturalist novels, exhibition catalogs, expansive encyclopedias, republican literature, still-life painting, and portraiture during the 1860s and emerges as the primary framework for ordering and understanding the foreign culture of Japan. Imagined through its objects and inscribed into these various descriptive forms, Japan appeals to a French context that finds new political and aesthetic meaning in the accumulation and representation of things. By mapping the early French encounter with Japan across a variety of material forms, this project complicates the standard narrative of Japonsime to suggest that Japan is both politically and culturally encoded through the description of its objects in 1860s France.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Brink, Emily Eastgate |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
| Primary advisor | Marrinan, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Marrinan, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Guth, Christine |
| Thesis advisor | Vinograd, Richard Ellis |
| Thesis advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Advisor | Guth, Christine |
| Advisor | Vinograd, Richard Ellis |
| Advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Emily Eastgate Brink. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Emily Eastgate Brink
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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