The transcultural approach to Japanese art history embraced by the contributors to this volume centers on the dynamic aesthetic, artistic, and conceptual negoti

This volume offers fresh, challenging perspectives on Japanese art using the transcultural as an analytical framework. Its twenty-two case studies bring to ligh

The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow th

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, a

Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul G