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Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity
Hardcover
Series: Refiguring Modernism
Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryJapanese Art
ISBN13: 9780271097169
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 324
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
If we want to decolonize the history of art, argues Kristopher Kersey, we must rethink our approach to the historical record. This means dispensing with Eurocentric binaries--divisions between Western and non-Western, modern and premodern--and making a commitment to artworks that challenge the perspectives we build upon them. In Facing Images, the question takes elegant and intriguing form: If the aesthetic hallmarks of modernity can be found in twelfth-century art, what does it really mean to be modern?
Kersey's answer to this question models a new historiography. Facing Images begins by tracing the turbulent discourse surrounding the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field. In lieu of examining canonical works from the twelfth century, Kerseyforegrounds the elusive and the enigmatic in artworks little known and understudied outside Japan; the manuscripts he selects defy traditional art-historical narratives by exhibiting decidedly modern techniques, including montage, self-reference, reuse, noise, dissonance, and chronological disarray. Kersey weaves these medieval case studies together with insights from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship, using a methodology that will prove important for historians: Facing Images produces a history of non-Western art in which diverse and anachronic works are brought responsibly and equitably into dialogue with the present, without being subsumed under Eurocentric formalisms or false universals.
A timely intervention in the history of medieval Japanese art, art historiography, and the history of global modernism, Facing Images redefines the relationship of the premodern non-West to modern art. It will be of particular interest to scholars of medieval Japanese art and of modernism.
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