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19 January 2010

Chapter 4. The modern look: adopting the other’s style

Self & Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe

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 4. The modern look: adopting the other's style

 

 

We understand ‘modernity’ to be an era of exchange on a global scale, amidst which it has become impossible for any region to remain independent. Restricting oneself to ‘portraits’, modernity is an age in which it becomes easy, even inevitable, to incorporate the other’s style or motifs, regardless of whether one is depicting the self or the other. The various works in this chapter reveal the way in which ‘modernity’ swept through Asia and Europe.

  

 

	National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka		Fukuoka Asian Art Museum		National Museum of Art, Osaka

 

 

	Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History		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

 

 

AA/AE			EE/EA
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

 

    

		National Museum of Art, Osaka

 

  

 

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