9780937426647 - Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era von Guth, Christine M. E.; Volk, Alicia; Yamanashi, Emiko (2 Ergebnisse)

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Minor tear to page edges. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Japan and Paris brings to life a realm of ex-traordinary cultural exchange between Europe and Japan. Consisting of both French paintings acquired by Japanese collectors over the past century and oil paintings by leading Japanese artists who studied in Paris between 1890 and 1930, the exhibition explores important questions of cross-cultural in-fluence and Japanese self-identity in a period of rapid modernization and westernization as the twen-tieth century unfolded. European, and especially French, painting had a huge impact on Japanese culture in this period. The story at the exhibition's core is about Japan's interaction with the West. The collecting and studying of French painting in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan was a direct outgrowth of the national agenda of mod-ernization that characterized the official policies of the Meiji Emperor (r. 1868-1912) and his gov-ernment. The Meiji and succeeding Taisho (1912-1926) periods witnessed enormous political, eco-nomic, and.