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Author Berger, Klaus, 1901-

Title Japonisme in Western painting from Whistler to Matisse / Klaus Berger ; translated by David Britt
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description xviii, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Series Cambridge studies in the history of art
Cambridge studies in the history of art.
Contents The background -- Beginnings -- The pre-Impressionist pioneers -- The fashion for things Japanese, 1867-1888 -- Monet through six decades -- Critics, connoisseurs and dealers as leaders of taste, 1870-1880 -- The contribution of the scholars, 1879-1886 -- The crisis of Impressionism in the 1880s -- Symbolism, archaism, Japonisme -- The great Parisian collections, 1878-1905 -- Japanese exhibitions in Paris, 1883-1900 : the discovery of the 'Primitives' -- The second wave of Japonisme -- Japanese prints in Western museums -- The situation in England and America -- Art Nouveau and symbolism in Belgium and Holland -- Renewal in Central Europe -- France after 1900 -- Closing strains -- Retrospect -- Afterword
Analysis Europe
Graphic arts History
Japan
Notes Includes index
Translation of: Japonismus in der westlichen Malerei 1860-1920
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 379-383
Notes Translation of : Japonismus in der westlichen Malerei 1860-1920
Subject Art, Modern -- Japanese influences.
Art, Modern -- 19th century.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Japonism.
LC no. 90002639
ISBN 0521373212
Other Titles Japonismus in der westlichen Malerei. English