「モダン・アート」と「近代美術」 : 一九四〇-五十年代の議論をめぐる考察

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Shortly after the end of the Second World War during the late 1940's and the 1950s, the term "modan ahto" became an object of debate in the Japanese art community. "Modan ahto" is one of the several renditions of the English word "modern art" in Japanese. Another Japanese term for "modern art" is "kindai bijutsu" or "kindai geijutsu." The term "kindai, " which means modernity in Japanese, also attracted much critical attention during this period. Up to the time, this word tended to signify modernization of Japan after the Meiji Restoration in general and was not commonly used in the field of fine arts as in "modern art" or "modernism." In the postwar period, however, leading art critics tried to apply this term to define modern Japanese art in order to construct a history of modern art and to characterize a body of work that would illustrate this art historical narrative. These critics preferred the term "kindai bijutsu" (or "kindai geijutsu") to "modan ahto" because the Anglicism of the latter term seemed to lack a sense of artistic authenticity and creative autonomy they wished to attribute to modern Japanese art.
2002-09-30