The great wave the influence of Japanese woodcuts on French prints Colta Feller Ives

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ives, Colta Feller

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints, French--19th century.

Prints, French.

Prints, French--Japanese influences.

Impressionism (Art)--France.

Impressionism (Art).

Ukiyoe.

ukiyo-e.

France.

Genre:

Art criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages) illustrations (some color)

Distribution:

[New York] New York Graphic Society

Place of Publication:

[New York] The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1974]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"With Admiral Perry's penetration of isolationist Japan in 1854, the current of Japanese trade flowed west again, bearing, among other orientalia, the colored woodcuts of Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and their contemporaries. Some of the most avid collectors of the Japanese prints were French impressionists and Nabis, who found in the Ukiyo-e woodcuts new ways to treat their own prints: with bolder, flatter forms; asymmetrical compositions; new colors, startling in their range of boldness to subtlety; and an altered, often elevated, viewpoint. The typical Japanese subject matter--frank, close-range glimpses of ordinary people and familiar events--set Degas, Lautrec, and others off to draw the back rooms and backstages of Paris, its boudoirs and brothels, its crowds and the cafés and dance halls. Colta Feller Ives, Associate Curator of Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, recounts the phenomenal 'cult of Japan' in late nineteenth-century France and reveals its particular impacts on the etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and aquatints of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. The Great Wave illustrates the French Prints side by side with the Ukiyo-e cuts that inspired them and also contains a chronology of related events, notes, and a selected bibliography." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Chronology of related events

Impressionism and Ukiyo-e

Edouard Manet

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Mary Cassatt

Pierre Bonnard

Edouard Vuillard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Paul Gauguin

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-112)

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Ives, Colta Feller. Great wave: the influence of Japanese woodcuts on French prints

ISBN:

0870992287

9780870992285

OCLC:

594998241