TY - BOOK AU - Szostak,John Donald TI - Painting circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga collectives in early 20th-century Japan T2 - Japanese visual culture SN - 9789004249455 AV - ND1059.T745 S96 2013 U1 - 759.952 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Leiden PB - Brill KW - Tsuchida, Bakusen, KW - Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai (Japan) KW - fast KW - Painters KW - Japan KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - ART KW - History KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index; Preliminary Material; John D. Szostak --; Introduction; John D. Szostak --; Bakusen's Early Life and Works: Towards a Rural Genre Painting; John D. Szostak --; Beyond Chikujōkai: Expanding Infl uences and New Encounters; John D. Szostak --; Challenges, Changes, and Evolving Strategies at the Bunten; John D. Szostak --; Gathering the Higashiyama Circle; John D. Szostak --; The Inaugural Kokuten Exhibition of 1918: Content and Contexts; John D. Szostak --; Artistic Flowering: The Second and Third Kokuten Exhibitions; John D. Szostak --; Hiatus, Expansion, and Collapse: The Kokuten's Middle and Final Stages; John D. Szostak --; Conclusions; John D. Szostak --; Documents Related to the Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai; John D. Szostak --; List of Characters; John D. Szostak --; Endnotes; John D. Szostak --; Bibliography; John D. Szostak --; Index; John D. Szostak N2 - Painting Circles addresses the changing professional milieu of artists in early 20th century Japan, particularly the development of new social roles and networks, and how these factors informed the development of artistic identity. The focus of the study is the Nihonga painter Tsuchida Bakusen (1887-1936), who in 1918 founded an exhibition collective, the Kokuga Society, in response to increasing dissatisfaction with the nation¿́¿s government-sponsored exhibition salon. The study examines efforts by Bakusen and company to establish an independent position vis-a¿¿-vis the arts establishment by demonstrating their reflexive knowledge of Western modernist art movements on the one hand, and on the other, by showing their deep commitment to preserving traditional Japanese painting themes, media and techniques into the 20th century UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1456124 ER -