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19 January 2010

Chapter 3. After contact: representing the other in one’s own style

Self & Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe In Japan

Contents - The preparation - The concept and challenges - How the exhibition is structured - Chapter 1. Portraits of the Self - Chapter 2. Before contact: imagined others - Chapter 3. After contact: representing the other in one’s own style - Chapter 4. The modern look: adopting the other’s style - Chapter 5. Self and other in the  contemporary world

 

 

Chapter 3. After contact: representing the other in one's own style

 

 

Here we turn to various works produced in Asia and Europe after direct contact between the two began in the 16th century, which depict the image of the other using their own Indigenous style. Of course, the encounter equal one. The nature of the encounter emerges from the kind of figures that survive.

  

 

	National Museum of Art, Osaka		National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka		Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

 

 

	The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama		Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

 

  

	AE: An image of Asia seen from Europe		EE: An image of Europe seen from Europe
		Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

 

 

		The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

 

  

 

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