Full Description
The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Contents
Preface 1. Art, Ivory and the Meiji Period: An Introduction 2. The Curiosity Shop: The Forces of Capitalism 3. Transformations of the Craftsman 4. Individualism, Orthodoxy and the Evolution of Ivory Carving as Sculpture 5. Ivory after Meiji: A Conclusion
