Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene, yet studies on modern Taiwanese art published outside of Taiwan are scarce. The nine essays collected here present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830504
• ISBN13: 9780824830502
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.1"