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19 January 2010

Chapter 1. Portraits of the Self

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 1. Portraits of the Self

 

 

Here we look at ‘portraits’ from the period before contact between Asia and Europe. These depict people from each culture based on their own, respective traditions. We can therefore identify the way in which the self was represented. The works in this chapter provide a frame of reference for measuring the distance between the ways in which self and other have been represented.

  

 

		National Museum of Ethnology, Minpaku			National Museum of Art, Osaka
		Fukuoka Asian Art Museum			The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

 

 

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

 

 

EE			AA
	National Museum of Art, Osaka			National Museum of Ethnology, Minpaku

  

 

 

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