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The Rediscovery of Japan: The Critical Reception of Japanese Architecture in Portugal after the Opening of Japan to the West [PDF]
The opening of Japanese ports to the West in 1854 enabled the rediscovery by the rest of the world of Japan as a country, which, until then and throughout the more than two centuries of the Sakoku or closed country period, had maintained an isolationist ...
João Miguel Couto Duarte
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Új fejezet(ek) a japonizmuskutatásban
Recenzió a Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy című kötetről.
Petra Doma
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Translating the Beauty of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn’s Art Writing
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) is well known for his essays about Japan but his analyses of Japanese art have been overlooked, no doubt because he had no formal training in art history. This article examines the features of Hearn’s art writing.
Stefano Evangelista
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Abstract This article focuses on the ways in which a Japan‐specific Orientalism regarding Japanese femininities establishes itself in Weimar Germany's popular culture. In this period of German democratization in which we observe Weimar women's social, sexual, and political liberation, I propose that popular culture texts such as Fritz Lang's film ...
Berna Gueneli
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Transnational Solidarities and Competing Visions of Europe: Vienna's Vote on the Russo‐Japanese War
Abstract The 1904–05 Russo‐Japanese War is commonly described as a clash between a European power (Russia) and an Asian one (Japan). This binary framing is problematic, however, as ideas of Europeanness and Asianness were hotly contested during the war.
ULRICH BRANDENBURG
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Post‐Impressionism: Universal, British, Global
Starting from the possibility of a ‘global’ account of a style, this essay examines the consequences of the idea of post‐impressionism. Around 1910, Roger Fry drew on histories of world art and international art historiography to cast post‐impressionism as putatively universal, a style that was not just a new development, but was a rediscovery of a ...
Sam Rose
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Whistler and Battersea: The Aesthetics of Erasure and Redevelopment
This article looks at the significance of South London for Whistler, particularly the line of Battersea factories that he viewed and depicted repeatedly from his home on Cheyne Walk, where he lived from the 1860s.
Jon Newman
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L’estetica del mondo fluttuante: il “giapponismo” di Deleuze [PDF]
[The aesthetics of the floating world: Deleuze’s “japonism”]. Gilles Deleuze’s thought echoes beyond European or Western cultural domain; indeed, in Deleuze’s work, there is place for a privileged relationship with Asia, Far East, and Japan in particular.
Fabio D. Palumbo
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Les jardins alpino-japonais, histoire d’une possible utopie paysagère
The aim of this article is to give an initial overview of the Japanese Alpine gardens created in France and Belgium by offering a historical study of the circumstances that led to their creation at the beginning of the 20th century, ranging from the ...
Romain Billon
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The impact of Japonisme on European art and painting in the late 19th century: Characteristics of cultural exchange during the rise of European imperialism [PDF]
Since the opening of Japan to trade with the West, a cult of Japanese aesthetics in the art and design has been created in Europe. Japonisme exerted a remarkable influence on the emergence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including a ...
Sekulić Nada M.
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