ARTH 2340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kuroda Seiki, Meiji Restoration, Meiji Period
23 Nov 2017
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Begin to think about the problem of western vs. modern. The entry of western thought and technique into japanese art. The opening of a centre to study western art. Leads to the birth of yoga an earnest endeavour to establish western painting. Dutch learning continued through contact with traders and through books. Western contact was limited to the dutch. Chinese and korean traders brought in other information. Emperor meiji becomes leader in the meiji restoration capital of japan moves to tokyo. Importing the new from the west: ideas, clothes, etc. Consider ways of looking stratified by class or status . Things which give us as higher status in society such as education, knowledge, skills. Not a system of copying, but getting capital and expressing it through own cultural lens. Sino japanese war 1894-1895 (war with chinese, they win) Do not get anything in the peace treaty. The other to the western painting method.
