Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan
by
Ayako Ono
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world...