{"product_id":"facing-images-medieval-japanese-art-and-the-problem-of-modernity","title":"Facing Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf we want to decolonize the history of art, argues Kristopher Kersey, we must rethink our approach to the historical record. This means dispensing with Eurocentric binaries—divisions between \u003ci\u003eWestern\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003enon-Western\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emodern\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003epremodern\u003c\/i\u003e—and making a commitment to artworks that challenge the perspectives we build upon them. In \u003ci\u003eFacing Images\u003c\/i\u003e, the question takes elegant and intriguing form: If the aesthetic hallmarks of “modernity” can be found in twelfth-century art, what does it really mean to be “modern”?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKersey’s answer to this question models a new historiography. \u003ci\u003eFacing Images\u003c\/i\u003e begins by tracing the turbulent discourse surrounding the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field. In lieu of examining canonical works from the twelfth century, Kersey\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eforegrounds the elusive and the enigmatic in artworks little known and understudied outside Japan; the manuscripts he selects defy traditional art-historical narratives by exhibiting decidedly modern techniques, including montage, self-reference, reuse, noise, dissonance, and chronological disarray. Kersey weaves these medieval case studies together with insights from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship, using a methodology that will prove important for historians: \u003ci\u003eFacing Images\u003c\/i\u003e produces a history of non-Western art in which diverse and anachronic works are brought responsibly and equitably into dialogue with the present, without being subsumed under Eurocentric formalisms or false universals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timely intervention in the history of medieval Japanese art, art historiography, and the history of global modernism, \u003ci\u003eFacing Images \u003c\/i\u003eredefines the relationship of the “premodern” non-West to “modern” art. It will be of particular interest to scholars of medieval Japanese art and of modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986006270296,"sku":null,"price":105.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271097169.jpg?v=1778488247","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/facing-images-medieval-japanese-art-and-the-problem-of-modernity","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}