{"product_id":"imagined-neighbors-visions-of-china-in-japanese-art-ca-1680-1980-9783777442662","title":"Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art, Ca. 1680-1980","description":"\u003cb\u003eIntriguing paintings that explore Japanese artists' relationship with China.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art\u003c\/i\u003e examines Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. It focuses on ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and as an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalog entries highlighting unusual artworks revealing Japanese artists' complex responses to Chinese art, history, and culture. In recent years, a handful of scholarly studies have tried to push against the established narrative of an exclusively Western-inspired modern Japan. \u003ci\u003eImagined Neighbors \u003c\/i\u003echallenges the established narrative of an exclusively Western-inspired modern Japan by offering a more nuanced approach to understanding the country's struggle with reconciling the old with the new as it reinvented itself into a modern nationstate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Feltens\u003c\/b\u003e is curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. \u003cb\u003eMichiyo Morioka\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar of Japanese art based in Seattle, Washington. \u003cb\u003ePaul Berry\u003c\/b\u003e, based in Kyoto, Japan, is an independent scholar of Japanese art and cinema.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hirmer Verlag GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903672946962,"sku":"9783777442662","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a639bf8-50bf-41db-8d46-4a191f39e3f9.jpg?v=1738502642","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imagined-neighbors-visions-of-china-in-japanese-art-ca-1680-1980-9783777442662","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}