Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Lavery, Grace Elisabeth - 2019-05-27

Princeton University Press, 2019-05-28. Hardcover. Used: Good.

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Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover with like DJ. 8vo. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, index, and B&W photography and illustrations throughout. 219 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, textual criticism, and a wealth of in-depth archival research, Grace Lavery provides a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She argues that the global popularity of Japanese art… Read More

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Princeton University Press, 2019-05-28. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New. How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, textual criticism, and a wealth of in-depth archival research, Grace Lavery provides a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She argues that the global popularity of Japanese art in the late nineteenth century reflected an imagined universal standard of taste that Kant described as the "subjective universal" condition of aesthetic judgment. The book features illuminating cultural histories of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, English… Read More

Princeton Univ Pr, 2019. Hardcover. New. 232 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches.