Being modern: The circulation of oriental objects

American Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 379-406

  Kim, Thomas W ^a  

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EID: 60949702772     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2006.0045     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. and Hugh Honour, Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay (London: J. Murray, 1961)
2. Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, "Contemporary Japanese Art," The Century 46.4 (August 1893): 578
3. Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful (1881; reprint, New York: Dover, 1995), 217
4. Candace Wheeler, ed., Household Art (New York: Harper, 1893)
5. Cook, The House Beautiful, 244, 154
6. William Elliot Griffis, "Japanese Art, Artists, and Artisans," Scribner's 3.1 (January 1888): 108. Griffis (1843-1928) taught at Rutgers College until he was asked to reach science in Japan; he spent four years teaching chemistry and physics at the institution that later became Tokyo University and went on to author eighteen books
7. See Benfey, The Great Wave, 45-73
8. For an extended discussion or nineteenth-century exoticism, see Chris Bongie, Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991)
9. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, "China: The River of Tea," The Century 58.4 (August 1899): 549
10. Lears, No Place of Grace, 258
11. William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (New York: Vintage, 1993), 104-5
12. Theodor Adorno, "Veblen's Attack on Culture," in Prisms, trans. Samuel, and Shierry Weber (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1967), 80
13. Cook, The House Beautiful, 102-3
14. Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?" Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1994), 312
15. In other words, in the process of the Orient becoming a commodity fetish, there is the potential for critical disruptions as the object becomes more a thing, less determined, more negotiated. "Thing theory," which is not concerned with whether an object is Oriental, Western, or modern, is a philosophical enterprise that investigates what lies beyond the subject-object dialectic, to examine the ways in which things don't always cite their objecthood properly; they exceed their materiality or use value, and they wield a symbolic, meditative, or erotic potency that helps account for our desire for things, a desire that is not quite addressed by the exchange value that Marx ultimately finds alienating and dehumanizing. See Bill Brown, "Thing Theory," Critical Inquiry 28.1 (2001): 1-16
16. and Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern," Critical Inquiry 30.2 (Winter 2004): 225-48
17. Lowell, "Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan," Part 3, Atlantic Monthly (March 1891): 364-80
18. Lowell, "Occult Japan; or, The Way of the Gods," Atlantic Monthly (June 1895): 837-41
19. S. Wells Williams, "Miss Bird's Japan and Yezo," New Englander and Yale Review 40 (March 1881): 201-13
20. See Edward Sylvester Morse, "Old Satsuma," Harper's 77.460 (September 1888): 512-29
21. See also John LaFarge, "From Tokio to Nikko: An Artist's Letters from Japan," The Century 39.5 (March 1890): 712-20
22. LaFarge, "An Artist's Letters from Japan," The Century 40.6 (October 1890): 866-78
23. and LaFarge, "Bric-A-Brac: An Artists Letters from Japan," The Century 46.3 (July 1893): 419-29
24. Robert Blum, "An Artist in Japan," Scribner's 13.4 (April 1893): 399; emphasis added. Blum (1857-1903) received an assignment from Scribner's that took him to Japan for two years, during which he published a three-part account of his adventures, with his own illustrations, and kept a diary
25. Griffis, "Japanese Art, Artists, and Artisans," 108
26. Franz Boas, "A Plea for a Great Oriental School," Journal of the American Asiatic Association 3 (1903): 7; emphasis added
27. A great deal has been published, on Fenollosa's work in relation to Ezra Pound and imagist poetry more generally. See Zhaoming Qian, The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003)
28. Robert Kern, Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
29. and Shu Jian Lu, "Fenollosa, Pound, and Chinese Poetry," Paideuma 27.2-3 (Fall-Winter 1998): 153-63
30. For more on Fenollosa, the ideogram, and American literature, see Cordell D. K. Yee, "Discourse on Ideogrammatic Method: Epistemology and Pound's Poetics," American Literature 59.2 (May 1987): 242-56
31. Zonggi Cai, Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002)
32. and Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
33. Ernest Fenollosa, "An Outline of Japanese Art," The Century 56.1 (May 1898): 62-76
34. "An Outline of Japanese Art," Part 2, The Century 56.2 (June 1898): 275-76
35. Ernest Fenollosa, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design, vol. 1 (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1912), xxiv
36. Ernest Fenollosa, "Chinese and Japanese Traits," Atlantic Monthly 69.416 (June 1892): 769-74
37. See, for example, Lafcadio Hearn, "The Chief City of the Province of the Gods," Atlantic Monthly 68.409 (November 1891): 621-35
38. "A Winter Journey to Japan," Harper's 81.486 (November 1890): 860-69
39. "A Trip to Kyoto," Atlantic Monthly 77.463 (May 1896): 613-24
40. "The Genius of Japanese Civilization," Atlantic Monthly 76.456 (October 1895): 449-58
41. "In a Japanese Garden," Atlantic Monthly 70.417 (July 1892): 14-33
42. "The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan," Atlantic Monthly 68.410 (December 1891): 780-96
43. Hearn, "The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan," 781
44. Hearn, "The Chief City of the Province of the Gods," 621
45. Hearn, "The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan," 789
46. Hearn, "The Chief City of the Province of the Gods," 623
47. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, "Down to Java," The Century 54.4 (August 1897): 535. Scidmore (1856-1928), a journalist and photographer, spent long periods in Asia, especially Japan, and published articles in several magazines
48. Beatrice Grimshaw, "Helen of the Hundred Waves: The Tale of the Magenta Jewel," The Saturday Evening Post, February 26, 1927, 30+
49. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), 10-11
50. Frank Norris, "The Third Circle," in The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris (New York: Ironweed Press, 1998), 77. This story first appeared in the August 28, 1897, edition of Wave
51. Fabian, Time and the Other, 31; emphasis in the original