Facing images: medieval Japanese art and the problem of modernity

Abstract

"Traces the turbulent discourse about the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field, and presents a new paradigm for discussing the place of non-Western and nonmodern art in global modernity" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Antinomies : transiting modernity in Japanese art history -- Interface : between visuality and alterity -- Stratigraphy : facing the Eyeless sutras -- Anti-aesthetics : materiality and visuality in The significance of the character "A" (ajigi) -- Viscera : anatomy, prosthesis, and the physiology of vision -- Montage : The anthology of the thirty-six poets and the modernity of collage.