{"id":2574,"date":"2020-10-04T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2023-03-19T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:12:01","slug":"introduction-appropriate-japan-how-western-art-prepared-a-nation-for-war-de-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anita-gratzer.net\/ma\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate Japan | How Western Art prepared a Nation for War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The book Appropriate Japan focuses on the influence of Western art and culture on the construction of a Japanese national identity after the Meiji Restoration and how Japan transferred these values to its colonies of Taiwan, Korea, and Manchuria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As the concept of culture developed in Europe in the 18th century, it did so in the context of expanding knowledge of the world and the possibilities of historical and regional comparisons. Since then it has been a major term for the self\u00addescription of Europe to assert its own identity. This self\u00addetermination includes a comparison of cultures, which is the demarcation between one’s own culture and the foreign culture. Only the differentiation of ‘our’ culture from ‘their’ culture, generates different cultures which are to be mediated against each other. In those colonial times the Orient became therefore a main construction of the West, a product of the communication system which created a counter\u00adimage of one’s own in order to produce the identity of the modern West by means of a two\u00adpart logic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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