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Erotic Japonisme
The Influence of Japanese Sexual Imagery on Western Art
Richard Bru
“… Richard Bru’s Erotic Japonisme brings an outstanding publication to the
academic field. … This innovative and challenging book will not only lead
Japonisme studies into a new phase, but will also make us more sensitive to
cultural differences between Japan and the West.”
- Atushi Miura, In: Print
Quarterly, Vol. 4 (December 2015), pp. 473-476.
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Erotic Japonisme
The Influence of Japanese Sexual Imagery on Western Art
Ricard Bru
ISBN13: 9789004258327
Publication Date: Dec. 2013
Copyright Year: 2014
Format: Paperback
Publication Type: Book
Pages, Illustr.:
192 pp., with 200 illustrations
Imprint: Hotei Publishing
Language: English
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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 Émile 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.
Biographical note
Ricard Bru (Ph.D. in Art History) has been a professor of Nineteenth-Century Art History at the University of Barcelona and he is currently working for the Institute of Culture of Barcelona. He curated the resent exhibitions "Secret Images: Picasso and the Japanese Erotic Print" (2009), and "Japonisme: The Fascination of Japanese Art" ("Japonismo: La fascinación por el arte japonés") (2013).
Readership
All those interested in Japanese art, particularly erotic art and its links to the West through the Japonisme phenomenon.
Reviews
“If there was a gap in the literature on Japonisme regarding shunga, it has now been filled by Bru’s handsomely designed and illustrated books, which is indeed an important addition to the literature on the subject.” Max Put, independent scholar in Andon, issue 96, July 2014.
“… Richard Bru’s Erotic Japonisme brings an outstanding publication to the academic field. … This innovative and challenging book will not only lead Japonisme studies into a new phase, but will also make us more sensitive to cultural differences between Japan and the West.”
Atushi Miura, In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 4 (December 2015), pp. 473-476.
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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