AOW #7 Responding to - "Japanese Art, on Its Own Terms" By Sarah Moroz

AOW #7 Responding to - "Japanese Art, on Its Own Terms" By Sarah Moroz

This Week's Focus: 

Rhetorical Precis

Article Category: Art

Link to Article: Japanese Art, on Its Own Terms (October 30, 2017)

New York Time's reporter, Sarah Moroz, in her article about Japanese art, "Japanese Art, on Its Own Terms" (October 30, 2017), goes into detail on how “Japanorama” becomes a diplomatic initiative to highlight Japanese culture through exhibitions and events in France in 2018. She supports her claim by describing how since the 1910s, Japanese art has been seeing by the French and other European countries as early 20th century copies of European art, especially from France. She then goes on to explain how “Japanorama” is code for “New Vision on Art Since 1970,” the year that Japan began to reassert its own cultural identity, spurred by the new confidence it found at Expo ’70 in Osaka.
Sarah explains how the exhibition went into detail into reductive caricature, examining the way the push and pull between tradition and technology, individual and collective, have shaped the culture in unique ways.
In conclusion, Sarah's purpose is to inform how this years exhibition over Japans own art will bring Japanese culture to life without Western influence or stereotypes over what they think of Japan as a whole. She establishes an informative tone for readers interested on being informed about Japanese art in  a modern sense into to deliver the information smoothly.