Japanomania in the Nordic countries, 1875-1918

This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Christopher Dresser, Pietro Krohn, Alf Wallander, and Frida Hansen, among others, offers an unprecedented study of Jap...

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Corporate Authors: Ateneumin Taidemuseo (Gastgebende Institution)
Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design (Gastgebende Institution)
Statens Museum for Kunst (Gastgebende Institution)
Other Authors: Weisberg, Gabriel P. (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria von (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Selkokari, Hanne (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press , [2016]
Oslo : National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design , [2016]
Copenhagen : SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst , [2016]
Brussels : Mercatorfonds , [2016]
Series:Ateneum Publications Vol. 75
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Related Items:Parallele Sprachausgabe: Japanomania
Rezensiert in: Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918
Author Notes:edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff & Hanne Selkokari
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : International Japonisme. The Japonisme phenomenon
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg ; The Anglo-Japanese style and 'the great wave of Japanese influence'
  • Early Nordic Connections. Connecting with Japan : the transmission
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg ; The first collections of Japanese art in Nordic countries
  • Pioneers in the North. 'Only the useless is beautiful' : those wonderful ladies in their kimonos
  • Anna Kortelainen ; Art collector Herman Frithiof Antell : at home in Paris, abroad in Japan
  • A New Aesthetic Language in Nordic Art. Japonisme, national identity and a new aesthetic idiom
  • Widar Halén ; The ideal of simplification : Japonisme's most persistent manifestation in Nordic art?
  • Cutting Edge Techniques. Textile art and Nordic Japonisme at the Friends of Finnish handicraft
  • Leena Svinhufvud ; A hint of Japan : Japonisme in Edvard Munch's and Nikolai Astrup's prints
  • Nordic Nature. From blade of grass to sacred wilderness : changing the concept of nature
  • Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff ; Norwegian nature in a Japanese costume : Japonisme in Thorolf Holmboe's and Theodor Kittelsen's art
  • Japanomania Hits the Streets. Japan mania and the popular reception of Japonisme
  • Widar Halén ; 'Copies without an original' : Japonisme in popular postcard imagery