Inexorable Modernity. Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts, Paperback/***

A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some practitioners of art and intellectuals. Publisher: Lexington Books Number of pages: 284 Publication date: 2007 Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 17 Cover type: Paperback / softback Editor(s): Hiroshi Nara