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In Pursuit of Universalism : Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art - Alicia Volk

In Pursuit of Universalism

Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art

By: Alicia Volk

Hardcover | 4 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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In Pursuit of Universalism is the first comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. In this groundbreaking work, which is also the inaugural recipient of the Phillips Book Prize (awarded by the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art), Alicia Volk constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugorō, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Volk places Yorozu at the forefront of a movement that sought to define Japanese art's role in the world by interrogating and ultimately refusing the opposition between East and West. Instead, she vividly demonstrates how Yorozu reframed modern art's dualistic underpinnings and transposed them into an inclusive and synthetic relation between the local and the universal. By looking closely at questions of cultural exchange within modern art, In Pursuit of Universalism offers a new and vital account of both Japanese and Euroamerican modernism. Volk's pioneering study builds bridges between the fields of modern and Asian art and takes its place at the forefront of the emerging global history of modern art.

Copub: The Phillips Collection
Industry Reviews
"Definitively illuminates a new horizon for the field of modern Asian art... It is precisely what the discipline needs." -- Chun-Wa Chan, The University of Hong Kong Journal Of Oriental Studies "Forceful and eloquent... A substantially rigorous and provocative probe into the search for universalism in a differentiated world." -- Alice Y. Tseng International Journal Of Asian Studies "Deserves to be read by all historians of modern art and East Asian culture and contributes to the growing field of East-West cultural exchange." Journal Of Asian Stds (Jas) / Se Asia & Western Pacific "An impressive book, beautifully produced and sustaining intellectual rigour with its detailed, stimulating research." -- Helenkilpatrick Japanese Studies "Excellent... Exquisitely written." Art Bulletin (CAA) "Written beautifully and compellingly." Journal Of Japanese Studies

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