Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan : the role of traditional Japanese art and architecture in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan : the role of traditional Japanese art and architecture in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapman & Hall, 1993
1st ed
Available at 42 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An account of Frank Lloyd Wright's relationship with Japan and its arts. It presents information on the nature and extent of Wright's formal and philosophical debt to Japanese art and architecture. Eight primary channels of influence are examined in detail, from Japanese prints to specific individuals and publications, and the evidence of their impact on Wright is illustrated through a mixture of textual and drawn analyses. Wright's friendships and connections with key artistic figures in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s are revealed and the impact of Japanese culture in America at tha time is discussed. Philosophical influences on Wright and their effect on his creative inspiration are explored. Wright's use of specific Japanese sources is used to illustrate his general creative process of bringing together disparate formal and philosophical ideas into new synthesis, in order to clarify the particular nature of his artistic originality.
Table of Contents
- "Japanism" and the Boston orientalists
- Japanese homes - the Japanese house "dissected"
- the Ho-o-Den - the temple and the villa married in South Chicago
- Fenollosa and the "organic" nature of Japanese art
- composition - the picture, the plan and the pattern, as aesthetic "line-ideas"
- the woodblock print and the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made and social forms
- Okatura and the social and aesthetic ideals of the East
- japan itself - giving and receiving in "Yedo"
- Japan as inspiration - analogies with Japanese built-forms
- Japan as confirmation - the universal manifested in the particular. Appendices: summary of events
- biographical sketches
- glossary.
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