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

by Michael Lucken

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231172923
• ISBN13: 9780231172929
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"