Erotic Japonisme : the influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western art
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Erotic Japonisme : the influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western art
Hotei Publishing, 2014
- : pbk
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  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. 162-171) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japonisme had a tremendous impact on Western art. In this publication, author Ricard Bru approaches the cultural phenomenon of Japonisme from an innovative standpoint. He presents an in-depth discussion of the influence of Japanese printed erotic imagery by ukiyo-e masters such as Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, and Utagawa Hiroshige on European artists, including Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso, as well as writers, critics, and collectors, such as Edmond de Goncourt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Emile Zola. With over 160 color illustrations sourced from public and private collections, Erotic Japonisme demonstrates the rich artistic dialogue that existed between Europe and Japan.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes to the Reader
Introduction
The Eighteenth Century and Romantic Orientalism
The Arrival and First Appraisals of Shunga in Mid Nineteenth-Century Europe
1 The Western Encounter with Shunga
The Early European Discovery of Shunga
Sporadic Encounters During the Edo Period
The Opening of Japan and the Spread of Shunga in Europe
2 Collections of Japanese Erotic Art in Europe and Their Dissemination
The First Parisian Collectors
Shunga in Western Publications
3 The Impact of Shunga on European Art
The Appeal to Artists
The French Milieu
Octopuses of Pleasure and Death
The Belgian Case
The British Contribution
The European Diffusion of Shunga at the Turn of the Century
Shunga as an Enduring Influence in Twentieth-Century Art
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Photography Credits
Index
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