Taishō chic
Subtitle: Japanese modernity, nostalgia, and deco
By: essays by Kendall H. Brown, Sharon A. Minichiello ; catalogue entries by Kendall H. Brown ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brown, Kendall H.; Minichiello, Sharon, 1939-; Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Publisher: Honolulu Academy of Arts
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Honolulu Academy of Arts -- Exhibitions; Art, Japanese -- Taishō period, 1912-1926 -- Exhibitions; Art, Japanese -- Western influences -- Exhibitions; Women in art -- Exhibitions; Art -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Japanese modernity, nostalgia, and deco
Description: "Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japanese tradition. The nihonga paintings, woodblock prints, textiles, and domestic artifacts discussed and illustrated here come primarily from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which organized the exhibition documented by this book.

Many of these works have never been published and several major paintings, exhibited in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s then lost after the war, are brought to light here for the first time in decades. This catalogue not only presents newly discovered works but also, in bringing together a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, reconstructs the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho Chic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.
"Exhibition debuted in Honolulu, January 31 to March 15, 2002"--T.p. verso.