Recovering the Orient

Debating Said; Japanese art, Monet and the formation of Impressionism - an inquiry into some conditions of cultural exchange and appropriation in later 19th-century European art; Debussy and the Orient; Raffles and Daniell - making the images fit; Chinese space in Chinese painting; "landscape" in early Java; text as performance - tragedy in Japanese drama; the emergence of the printed book in Japan - a comparative approach; "popular art" and the Javanese tradition; who decides and who speaks? Shutaisei and the West in postwar Japan; aboard two ships - Western assumptions on medium and genre in Malay oral and written traditions; "extravagant art" and Balinese ritual. (Part contents).