The Lens Within the Heart

The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan

Paperback Engels 2002 9780700715732
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Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of Western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirrors had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech goes to the core of later eighteenth century thought through popular objects and the propositions which many considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996 have yet to be substantially challenged.

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ISBN13:9780700715732
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:330
Uitgever:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Thema:
1FPJ Japan
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899

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List of Plates and Figures Preface Preface to 2nd Edition Introduction 1. Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 2. The 'Batavian Temperament' and its Critics 3. Mechanics and Motions 4. Machinery for Pictures 5. Seeing In 6. The Eye and the Lens 7. The View from on High Notes Glossary References Bibliographical Addendum Index

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