2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Multilayered Structure of Japanese Culture : An Historical Overview on Multicultural Elements in Modern Japanese Art,1900-1980
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14310035
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fine art history
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| Research Institution | The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
OSAKI Masaaki The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Deputy Director, 副館長 (00113423)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUZUKI Katsuo The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Dept.of Exhibition, Program Planning, 企画課, 主任研究官 (30321558)
OTANI Shogo The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Dept.of Collection, 美術課, 研究員 (90270420)
MASUDA Rei The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Dept.of Collection, 美術課, 主任研究官 (40260004)
HOSAKA Kenjiro The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Dept.of Exhibition, Program Planning, 企画課, 研究員 (40332142)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | Art History / Multi Cultrure / Center / Region / Climate / Home / Regionalism / Folklore |
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| Research Abstract |
Aiming at providing a more pluralistic perspective in the generally monolinear descriptions of Japanese art history, this project examined multicultural aspects of Japanese art in the period mainly from around 1900 to the 1980s, with the focus on various "regions" in Japan that have developed their unique cultures. Our goal was to discover a new pluralistic approach to recapturing Japanese art by examining the expression developed as the result of relationships with the region or between regions.
Suzuki's introduction, centering on minzokugaku (folklore studies) founded by Kunio Yanagita, aims at tracing the changes in the significance attached to the theme of "region" in Japanese art during the said period. Otani's essay examines the relationships between the avant-garde and regionalism/homeland, guided by the prewar writings on regionalism in art by the two avant-garde painters, Shu Ogawara and Noboru Kitawaki. Masuda investigates Snow Country and Coast of the Japan Sea by the photographer Hiroshi Hamaya to reveal the complexity of regionalist attitudes and the intertwining of various thoughts on modernity and the country against the background of the social upheavals around the end of World War II. Hosaka' essay critically examines the issue of "presentativeness" in modern and contemporary Japanese architecture in the light of its relationship with regionalism, and discovers the possibility of regionalist architecture in the work of architects who attach importance to the communicatioji during_the design_and construction processes. Ozaki introduces a document entitled Kagaku Tsuioku (Memories of Kagaku) comprising letters and scraps by Kagaku Murakami, a Kansai-based painter whose work was closely connected to the region's culture, and publishes twenty letters of the artist for the first time.
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