 | Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao Subjects: Creation (Literary artistic etc.); Imitation in art; Kishida Ryusei 1891–1929 -- Criticism and interpretation; Kurosawa Akira 1910–1998 -- Criticism and interpretation; Araki Nobuyoshi 1940– -- Criticism and interpretation; Miyazaki Hayao 1941–; The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construction, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture through several twentieth-century masterpieces. Michael Lucken is a professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. He is the author of L'Art du Japon au vingtième siècle (Japanese Art in the Twentieth Century, 2001) and a coeditor of Japan's Postwar (2011). |
