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2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Aesthetics and Art Studies in Modern Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610051
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 美学(含芸術諸学)
Research InstitutionKwansei Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

KATO Tetsuhiro  Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Humanities, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (60152724)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2001
Keywordsthe Meiji era / Japan / aesthetics / art atudies / Nishi, Amane / Fenollosa / Otsuka, Yasuji / Sociology of Science
Research Abstract

The aimof this research is to think over the ideal image of aesthetics at present and in future byreflecting on the situations in which aesthetics and art studies in the Meiji era Japan were placed. Concretely, the time span this exploration covers is limited within the period from 1870's (beginning of importation of aesthetics) to 1900 (Otsuka's inauguration into the chair of aesthetics at University of Tokyo), so that the background of the birth of institutional framework of aesthetics in Japan, which keeps the strong controlling power even now, might be investigated efficiently.
As is shown in the Report, where six papers are collected, it can be said that the initial aim has been almost adequately attained. Aesthetical texts by Nishi, Fenollosa, Otsuka etc. and their social contexts are analysed here successively, and the situations in Japan are compared with those in the advanced European countries^like Germany. By using the method of sociology of knowledge", this research tries to relativize the then "aesthetics" which was inspired with a kind of neoclassic view of art and was shared widely with many intellectuals everywhere in the world. "
Of course, there may be lots of insufficiencies and inaccuracies. Art genres and countries to compare with have been reduced. And it is also regrettable that the descriptions tend to be concentrated to the academic mainstream aesthetics around University of Tokyo. Overcoming these inadequacies will be my future task.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "E.F.Fenollosa and the Importation of Aesthetics into Japan"美学論究. 14. 13-22 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "制度としての美術史学とその研究対象"美学論究. 15. 1-18 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "大塚保治と近代日本における芸術研究"人文論究. 51-1. 1-12 (2001)

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  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "『今、日本の美術史学をふりかえる』所収「近代日本における美学と美術史学」"東京国立文化財研究所. 11(319) (1999)

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  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "『関西学院111周年文学部記念論文集』所収「近代日本における美学の社会的機能:西周の場合」"関西学院大学文学部. 14(374) (2000)

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  • [Publications] 加藤哲弘: "『講座日本思想第四巻「芸術」』所収「矢代幸雄と近代日本の文化政策」"晃洋書房. 25(296) (2002)

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  • [Publications] Tetsushiro KATO: "E.F Fenollosa and the Importation of Aesthetics into Japan"Bigaku Ronkyu. 14. 13-22 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tetsushiro KATO: "Art History as Institution, and Its Objects of Research"Bigaku Ronkyu. 15. 1-18 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Tetsushiro KATO: "OTSUKA Yasuji and the Foundation of Art Studies in modern Japan"Jinbun Ronkyu. 51-1. 1-12 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Tetsuhiro KATO: "The Study of Aesthetics and Art History in Modern Japan. In : The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan"Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. 32-42 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tetsuhiro KATO: "Social Function of Aesthetics in Mdern Japan : The Case of NISHI Amane. In : Papers Commemorating the 111th Anniversary of Kwansei Gakuin"Kwansei Gakuin Univ. 37635. 1-14 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Tetsuhiro KATO: "YASHIRO Yukio and the Cultural Policy of Modern Japan. In : Lectures on Japanese Thought, Vol.4 : Art"Koyo-shobo. 69-84. 69-84 (2002)

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Published: 2003-09-17  

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