The empty museum : Western cultures and the artistic field in modern Japan / by Masaaki Morishita.

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. Focusing on 'empty museums', one of the most distinctive forms...

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Main Author: Morishita, Masaaki, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2010.
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