Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts

From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao

Michael Lucken, Francesca Simkin

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Columbia University Press
29 March 2016

Oriental art; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts.

Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres-painting, film, photography, and animation-Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914–1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), Araki Nobuyoshi's photographic novel Sentimental Journey-Winter (1991), and Miyazaki Hayao's popular anime film Spirited Away (2001), revealing the sophisticated patterns of mimesis that are unique but not exclusive to modern Japanese art. In doing so, Lucken identifies the tensions that drive the Japanese imagination, which are much richer than a simple opposition between progress and tradition, and their reflection of human culture's universal encounter with change. This global perspective explains why, despite its non-Western origins, Japanese art has earned such a vast following.

By: Michael Lucken
Translated by: Francesca Simkin
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780231172929
ISBN 10: 0231172923
Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 March 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I. A Historical Construction 1. Copycat Japan 2. The West and the Invention of Creation 3. The Denial, Rejection, and Sublimation of Imitation 4. No Poaching 5. Seen from Japan 6. The Logic of Reflection in Nakai Masakazu Part II. A New Place for Imitation 7. Kishida Ryusei's Portraits of Reiko, or, How Can Ghosts Be at Work? 8. Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru, or, the Impossibility of Metaphor 9. Araki Nobuyoshi's Sentimental Journey-Winter, or, Eternal Bones 10. Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away, or, the Adventure of the Obliques Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index

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 vingtieme siecle (Japanese Art in the Twentieth Century, 2001) and a coeditor of Japan's Postwar (2011).

Reviews for Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts is a sophisticated and complex meditation on the nature of Japanese creativity, and by extension, of the nature of artistic creativity in general. Michael Lucken's writing is a performance, and it's dazzling. -- Thomas Rimer, University of Pittsburgh A well-written and rigorously researched analysis that is grounded in both continental and Japanese theoretical literature. It will offer a perspective that is fresh for many readers and will be a significant contribution to the current literature on modern Japanese art and visual culture. -- Jonathan Reynolds, Barnard College