Imagined Selves: Mediating Desires and Subject Positions in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837–1913)

• Published in: Archives of Asian art Vol. 70; no. 2; p. 119
• Main Author: Wakamatsu, Yurika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Duke University Press 01.10.2020
• Subjects: 20th century; Beauty; Interpersonal relations; Japanese culture; Rhetorical figures; Sentence structure; Subjectivity; Visual artists; Women

Beauty by Plum and Window, a hanging scroll produced in 1907 by the Japanese artist Okuhara Seiko, calls into question fundamental presumptions about literati art, a mode of art-making often seen as a means of self-representation. Instead of creating a singular subject that indexes the artist's...