Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Chaiklin, M.

The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2014-08-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137363329

DOI: 10.1057/9781137363336

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 122