Authority, Autonomy, and the Early Taishō “Avant-Garde”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12424012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Volk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 451-473 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-2018310 |
| OpenAlex | W2055968290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay addresses the problematic notion of the “avant-garde” in the context of Japanese modern art. It looks at the formation in 1907 of the national salon, the Bunten, to elucidate the relational dynamics of art organizations in early twentieth-century Japan, especially during the Taisho period (1912 – 27) when the Fusain Society (Fyûzankai) and the Nika Society (Nikakai) came into being as alternatives to the Bunten. The essay elucidates one of the fundamental paradoxes of Taisho-period art — the simultaneous proliferation of art organizations and artistic individualism — and the dialectic between authority and autonomy that prevailed in art under the conditions of Japanese modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Autonomy · Avant garde · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Dynamics (music · Epistemology · Individualism · Modernity · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Architecture, Art, Education · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |