Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao [#1012298]

Michael Lucken, "Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao "
English | ISBN: 0231172923 | 2016 | 256 pages | MOBI | 4 MB
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.