The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan
| By: | Morishita, Masaaki, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754649540 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409492634 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This 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.
The author focuses on one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums: the 'empty museums'