Empty Museum
Subtitle: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780754649540
Subjects: Japan, social life and customs; East and west; Arts, japan
Description: This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. The author focuses on one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums: the 'empty museums' - museums without collections, permanent displays, or curators.