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Problems in art history documentation in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Itsuo Okubo
Itsuo Okubo*
Affiliation:
Museum Library, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
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Abstract

The study of art history in Japan, and its documentation, have developed since the end of the 19th century, very largely (especially prior to World War II) as a national project dependent on national institutions, development of a kind which, while making considerable achievements possible, has been subject to certain limitations and which has failed to produce co-operative networks involving museums and art libraries which now exist in greater variety. In particular, some categories of material tend not to be acquired by either museums or libraries. These are problems which must be resolved if art history scholarship is to continue to flourish in Japan, and if Japan is to contribute as fully as it might to scholarship worldwide.

A paper presented to the Art Libraries Round Table at the IFLA General Conference, Manila, 1980.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Winter 1980 , pp. 25 - 34
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1980

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