{"product_id":"facing-images-kristopher-w-kersey-9780271097169","title":"Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristopher W. Kersey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271097167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271097169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 7.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Kristopher W. Kersey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46136191713535,"sku":"9780271097169","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2509b491-f51b-4c49-8034-3b972693799a.jpg?v=1726415956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facing-images-kristopher-w-kersey-9780271097169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}