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Japan and Britain after 1859 : creating cultural bridges /

This work examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Britain and Japan in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the 20th century. Topics covered include: architecture; industrial design; prints; painting; and photographs.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Checkland, Olive
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part Part I The price of seclusion
  • chapter 1 Shirts, studs and wash hand basins
  • chapter 2 The Great Exhibition as a cultural bridge
  • chapter 3 Affirmative action, abroad and in Japan
  • chapter 4 Yokohama muki
  • Japanese export ware
  • part Part II In Japan
  • chapter 5 Maruzen and the foreign book trade
  • chapter 6 Western architecture and Japanese architects
  • chapter 7 Christopher Dresser and industrial design
  • chapter 8 Paintings, photographs and prints
  • part Part III In Britain
  • chapter 9 Japonisme for all
  • chapter 10 Collecting Japanese art
  • chapter 11 Three painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons
  • chapter 12 'The lovely flower land of the Far East'
  • Travel writing about Japan
  • part Part IV The commercial spin-off
  • chapter 13 The Japan British Exhibition, London, 1910
  • chapter 14 Shopping for Japonoiserie
  • part Part V Four bridge builders
  • chapter 15 Painter, poet, pearl-maker and potter
  • Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach.