Louisine Havemeyer and her husband, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, were pioneering American patrons of art at the end of the last century. They assembled a collection of works by 19th-century French artists, as well as paintings by Rembrandt, El Greco and other old masters. This volume accompanies a recent exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Japan and Japanese art were intensely important to Wright for more than sixty years, and when he died there were approximately 6000 Japanese color woodblock prints in his personal collection. This narrative tells in vivid detail the story of Wright's immersion in the world of Japanese art.
"Designed for Pleasure" is a dazzling probe of Japan's famous "floating world" of spectacle and entertainment. The volume makes new discoveries about the patronage and commerce of an art that has been characterized for a century as sensational but plebeian. From luxury paintings of the pleasure quarters to Hokusai's iconic "Red Fugi," "Designed ...
Focused on the Lincoln Kirstein Collection of woodblock prints in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this book centres on Japan's attraction for Western novelties.
The first scholarly look at the ubiquitous Japanese umbrella, from their origins and the painstaking craftsmanship that goes into their making to their appearance in prints, paintings and photographs. A very good study of an art appreciated less than it should be, this catalog shows a stunning variety of objects selected from collections around ...
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