Japan has spawned a modernity that affects us all, whether in relation to cars, computers, robotics, video or Manga. Unlike in the West, modernity and tradition are not mutually exclusive, they coexist. Indeed, tradition is often the matrix of modernity. This is precisely the subject of this book. It contains over four hundred reproductions of artworks from the world’s leading museums, together with forty essays by specialists on topics such as Buddhism and Manga, not to mention film, video games, samurais, Japanese history, the 1964 Olympic Games and contemporary art.
Japan has spawned a modernity that affects us all, whether in relation to cars, computers, robotics, video or Manga. Unlike in the West, modernity and tradition are not mutually exclusive, they coexist. Indeed, tradition is often the matrix of modernity. This is precisely the subject of this book. It contains over four hundred reproductions of artworks from the world’s leading museums, together with forty essays by specialists on topics such as Buddhism and Manga, not to mention film, video games, samurais, Japanese history, the 1964 Olympic Games and contemporary art.
Hardcover
17 × 24 cm
512 pages
400 photographs
Texts
Jean-Paul Desroches
Yoshitori Ohara
Gregory Irvine
Tsunenari Tokugawa
Aude Fieschi
Nobuhiko Maruyama
Hiromu Ozawa
Hélène Bayou
Jérôme Gesquière
Satoshi Okuhara
Patricia Reymond
Thierry Jousse
Brigitte Koyama-Richard
Jean-Marie Bouissou
Julien Bastide
Fabrizio Modina
Jean-Baptiste Clais
Takashi Murakami
ISBN : 978-2-91517-365-9