Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (Modernist Latitudes),Used

Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities (Modernist Latitudes),Used

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Challenging clichs of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s.Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the EastWest encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of latenineteenthcentury Paris; collectors and curators in turnofthecentury Boston; and the midtwentiethcentury circles of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a groundbreaking integration of wellknown and forgotten episodes and personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional scholarly investments in the heroism of avantgarde accomplishment and ideals of cultural authenticity.

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