| | how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan? |
 | | From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, in the techniques of optical art - ranging from the scenographic perspective and the camera obscura to the basic structure of the photographic camera - the luminous origin of projection was always displayed as unique and privileged. |
 | | As I sketched at the beginning, toward the end of the nineteenth century the alteration of the origin-projection relationship was articulated in the shape of the diverse symptoms of science, technology, and art and thus rose into the foreground of historical reality. |
 | | In his essay on Surrealism in Japan, Yoshio Abe argues that during the years from the late 1910s to the early 1930s, "it was a sort of optimistic gaiety that set the Futuristic orientation in the avant-garde or modernist atmosphere."[23] Hence the heroic tone of the poem of Hagiwara at the beginning of this article. |
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