In Defiance of Collage: Assembling Modernity ca. 1112 CE
This article advocates for a reevaluation of the origins of "collage" in global modernity. It does so by scrutinizing the materiality, historicization, and emergence of a medieval Japanese manuscript known as the Anthology of the Thirty-Six Poets. Rediscovered in 1896, well into Japan'...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:137456 2023-08-20T04:08:21+02:00 In Defiance of Collage: Assembling Modernity ca. 1112 CE Kersey, Kristopher W. 2018 https://boris.unibe.ch/137456/ eng eng Duke University Press https://boris.unibe.ch/137456/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Kersey, Kristopher W. (2018). In Defiance of Collage: Assembling Modernity ca. 1112 CE. Archives of Asian art, 68(1), pp. 1-32. Duke University Press 10.1215/00666637-4342384 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4342384> 700 Arts info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4342384 2023-07-31T21:56:18Z This article advocates for a reevaluation of the origins of "collage" in global modernity. It does so by scrutinizing the materiality, historicization, and emergence of a medieval Japanese manuscript known as the Anthology of the Thirty-Six Poets. Rediscovered in 1896, well into Japan's modern era, the voluminous manuscript is replete with stunning examples of papers pasted together in the year 1112—precisely eight centuries before the celebrated Cubist innovations of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The stakes of the comparison are raised, however, by the fact that twentieth-century art historians and critics repeatedly cast the Anthology as the ultimate exemplar of an autochthonous, purely Japanese aesthetic. For some, the medieval Anthology was evidence of a proleptic modernity that challenged the purported innovativeness of North Atlantic modern art. Here I trace the trajectory and test the cogency of this provocative parallel. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Pablo ENVELOPE(-63.717,-63.717,-64.283,-64.283) Archives of Asian Art 68 1 1 32 |
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This article advocates for a reevaluation of the origins of "collage" in global modernity. It does so by scrutinizing the materiality, historicization, and emergence of a medieval Japanese manuscript known as the Anthology of the Thirty-Six Poets. Rediscovered in 1896, well into Japan's modern era, the voluminous manuscript is replete with stunning examples of papers pasted together in the year 1112—precisely eight centuries before the celebrated Cubist innovations of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The stakes of the comparison are raised, however, by the fact that twentieth-century art historians and critics repeatedly cast the Anthology as the ultimate exemplar of an autochthonous, purely Japanese aesthetic. For some, the medieval Anthology was evidence of a proleptic modernity that challenged the purported innovativeness of North Atlantic modern art. Here I trace the trajectory and test the cogency of this provocative parallel. |
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