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Author: Siegfried Wichmann
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$49.95~~
Buy New: $31.15
You Save: $18.80 (38%)

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 363242

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 10.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 0500281637
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
EAN: 9780500281635

Publication Date: November 19, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW

Customer Reviews:

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Learning to See July 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I ordered this book mainly because of my fascination with a blog by the same name. Here is a link to the blog "Japonisme" http://lotusgreenfotos.blogspot.com/ . I ordered my book "used, but in excellent condition". Its appearance is like any book that I have had for a few weeks. With 1105 illustrations and 432 large (10" x 12") pages I still haven't read it all.
The layout of the book really helps a novice like me to understand the influence of Japanese art on the West. Wonderful western images that capture the spirit of the Japonisme but don't copy them are abundantly reproduced in black and white and in color. Japanese images from gardens to tea bowls place no one technique over any other as long as the result is beautiful. Each wood block print is carefully calculated to achieve the most impact within a confined area. In all designs are based on nature, but don't replicate it.
I will be looking at this book for years, reading, looking at the illustrations and just enjoying it.

5 out of 5 stars

Japonisme April 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Exquisite book, most comprehensive I have seen on this subject. Worth ten times over the Amazon price!

5 out of 5 stars

New thoughts on Van Gogh July 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This beautiful book really opened my mind to the influence that Japanese art had on the Impressionist movement. Some very interesting comparisons of woodblocks and the work of Van Gogh.....Wow...It had never occurred to me before & to see the works side by side is fascinating. I first found this book in the school library & kept borrowing it; such wonderful images.I decided I had to own a copy & made my first Amazon.com purchase. Great service, Amazon, thank you....so quick & efficient. This book is great value and very well illustrated. The text is extremely interesting and thought provoking.

5 out of 5 stars

WONDERFUL RESOURCE GUIDE February 28, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

the title says it all - "The Japanese influence on Western art since 1858" --- details print making, textiles, jewelry design, ceramics and glass, home and garden, objects d'art and of course painting. Amazing, for example how much Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese art especially wood block prints and you will see examples of his art and Japanese art which he had access to "Theo and I have hundreds of Japanese prints in our collection..." --- I truly wish I could see an exhibition as put together as this book --- it is absolutely indepth, articulate, clear and consise and immense in scope. Weighs a ton and worth its weight in gold.

5 out of 5 stars

My holy grail May 16, 2000
29 out of 29 found this review helpful

For anyone interested in both Japanese Art and European Art at the turn of the last century, this book will become the most satisfying reference book in your collection.

"Japonisme" is the term used to describe the Victorian fascination with all things Japanese. Wichmann's book successfully demonstrates the influence of this fascination on the fine art of the era. Lavishly illustrated with over a thousand images, Wichmann's essays are informed both historically and artistically on the detailed ins and outs of the sharing of the two cultures of East and West. Topics include the Asian influence in composition, pictoral space, design, choice of material, and subject matter in the visual art and architechture of turn of the century fin de siecle Europe and America. Visual examples are given from a wealth of artists including Van Gogh, Manet, Cassatt, Whistler, Degas, Mucha, Klimt, the architechs Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, and Japanese artists such as Hiroshige and Hokusai, just to name a few.

Being a visual artist from the west trained in the Western tradition and yet fascinated with Japanese fine art and in particular the tradition of ukiyo-e, discovering this book for me was like finding the holy grail, a book filled to the brim with stunning visual compromises between the traditions of East and West from which to take my own influences. Fantastic.

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