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| "A Matter of Life and Death": Kawabata on the Value of Art after the Atomic Bombings | ||
| 作者 | Miller, Mara (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |
| 卷期 | v.72 n.3 Summer |
| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 頁次 | 261 - 275 |
| 出版者 | Wiley |
| 出版者網址 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ |
| 出版地 | Hoboken, NJ, US [霍博肯, 紐澤西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| 摘要 | This article explores the possible interpretations—and the implications of those interpretations—of a comment about the importance of art made by Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), later the first Japanese Nobel laureate for literature: that "looking at old works of art is a matter of life and death." (In 1949, Kawabata visited Hiroshima in his capacity as president of the Japan literary society P.E.N. to inspect the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that helped end World War II. On his way back to his home in Kamakura, he stopped in Kyoto. He came under severe criticism for "sightseeing" at such a time. This comment was his response.) The introduction explains why we should take him seriously as a commentator on art. The body of the article examines why our looking at art might be more, not less, important after the post-War situation, the kinds of art Kawabata might have meant, why some possibilities are more likely than others, and how they differ in what they offer us and the value of art under conditions of trauma and mass trauma. |
| 目次 | Abstract 261 I. PRELIMINARY ISSUES 263 I.A. Japan after World War II 263 I.B. Kawabata's Legitimacy as the Maker of Such a Claim 263 II. THE ARTS KAWABATA WAS REFERRING TO 264 II.A. Japanese Art 264 II.B. Arts in Kyoto 264 II.C. Religious and Secular Art 266 II.D. Environmental and Landscape Arts 267 III. HOW IS "LOOKING AT OLD OBJECTS OF ART...A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH" 268 III.A. Inspiration 268 III.B. Pleasure: Alexithymia and the Rebirth of Pleasure 269 III.C. Knowledge 269 III.D. Wisdom 271 III.E. Knowledge How 271 IV. ARTS IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II CONTEXT 271 V. CONCLUSION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF KAWABATA'S THEORY 272 |
| ISSN | 00218529 (P); 15406245 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 3 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.10.09 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.10.09 |
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