Nippon No Ratai Geijutsu Shisei Kara Nude He (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Nudity abounded in Japan to the astonishment of foreigners who came to Japan at the end of the Edo period. Japanese people, who had enjoyed a natural, non-idealized image of the body, first encountered the Western ideal of the nude body at the end of the Edo period (1603-1868), and experienced conflicts and hardships in the process of modernization. This book traces the modernization of the gaze and expression of the nude, crossing a variety of themes, including the astonishing imagination at the end of the Edo period that gave birth to the nude doll and the lascivious nishiki-e print, the anguish of Western painters who tried to depict Japanese women in the Japanese environment, the public sculptures of the nude that sprang up all over Japan after the war, and tattoos, a unique Japanese body art highly valued abroad. A unique history of art. This is an enlarged and expanded edition with significant additions to the collection.

幕末に来日した外国人たちがこぞって驚くほど、日本には裸が溢れていた。理想化されない自然な身体イメージを享受してきた日本人は、江戸末期に初めて西洋の理想的身体であるヌードに出会い、近代化の過程で葛藤と苦難を体験する。本書は生人形や淫靡な錦絵を生んだ幕末の驚くべき想像力、日本という環境で日本女性を描こうとした洋画家たちの苦悩、戦後日本中に乱立したヌードの公共彫刻、海外で高く評価される日本独自の身体芸術・刺青など、さまざまなテーマを横断し、裸体への視線と表現の近代化をたどる異色の美術史。文庫化に際し大幅な加筆を行った増補版。