The Point of View of Traditional Modernity : Modernism in the 1930s

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  • 伝統的最先端の視線 : 一九三〇年代モダニズム考
  • 伝統的最先端の視線--1930年代モダニズム考
  • デントウテキ サイセンタン ノ シセン 1930ネンダイ モダニズムコウ

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Beginning around the 1930s, Japanese modernism showed a peculiar development by mixing modernity with tradition. This unexpected combination can be found in almost anything modern; the rationalistic style of modern architecture, the works of modern photography, and the Neue Sachlichkeit of modern art. Junichiro Tanizaki, Yojuro Yasuda, Ango Sakaguchi, Syoichi Nakai, and other modernistic writers were also influenced in style and content by the trend. The mixture of the two opposites suggests the ambivalence of ethnocentrism and heterogeneity in the modernist movement of the 1930s.

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