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From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan held a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, seen as both a rival empire and a source of exquisite beauty. This exploration delves into the lasting impact of this encounter, illustrating how Japan's rise transformed Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and extensive archival research, Grace Lavery presents a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She posits that the late nineteenth-century global popularity of Japanese art mirrored an imagined universal standard of taste, akin to Kant's "subjective universal" condition of aesthetic judgment. The work includes cultural histories of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, English haiku adaptations, and retellings of Madame Butterfly, while also highlighting lesser-known figures like Winnifred Eaton, who wrote under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, and Mikimoto Ryuzo, a Japanese admirer of Victorian art critic John Ruskin. Lavery discusses the significance of material objects, such as W. B. Yeats's katana sword and Oscar Wilde's "Japanese vellum" luxury editions. This examination offers vital insights into the modern understanding of beauty as a conduit for both intimacy and violence, along with the enduring influence of Japanese forms on contemporary writers and artists like Quentin Tarantino.
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Quaint, Exquisite, Grace Lavery
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- 2021
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