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The Arts of Meiji Japan, 1869-1912: Changing Aesthetics
The Arts of Meiji Japan 18691912 Changing Aesthetics Author:Barry Till In presenting "The Arts of Meiji Japan: Changing Aesthetics" now, we do so a century after the peak of the Meiji perios and on the eve of not only a century change but a millennium change. The end of the last century was one of the tremendous burgeoning of the arts, east and west. It was witnessed in the Meiji period in Japan and, likewise so, i... more »n Britain with the arts and crafts movement; in Europe with the art nouveau and succession movements; and followed in early twentieth century with the growth of expressionism, cubism and abstraction. It was perhaps that century change which had the greatest geographic spread of new artistic expression in history. Many of these "new" expressions were fueled by technological and industrial development; others resulted from financial and economic shifts.« less