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(★)(The Khalili Collection)(From the 1860s through to the 1890s the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant few could resist the obsession with all things Japanese. Superbly crafted and often highly decorated Japanese objects --lacquer, metalwork, ceramics, enamels and other decorative items rich in new and exotic subject matter-- stimulated and inspired Western artists and craftsmen to produce their own works. Arts of the Meiji period (1868-1912) were displayed at international exhibitions, in the galleries of influential dealers and at fashionable stores in London, Paris and Vienna. Artists from Van Gogh, Whistler, Monet and Manet to Klimt and Schiele were all, to varying degrees, influenced by the arts of Japan. Van Gogh himself stated that he owed his inspiration to Japanese art, but he was probably not conscious of the full extent to which art in Europe had already been greatly influenced by that of Japan. Here, six renowned scholars and specialists examine the wider influence of Japanese art and design in Europe with superlative examples from the Khalili Collection, the world´s finest collection of works from the Meiji period. They demonstrate that the Japanese influence on modern Western art has been far more penetrating than has been widely recognized. With 220 illustrations in colour and black and white. ◆Nasser D.Khalili has formed the world´s greatest collection of Meiji decorative art, comprising over one thousand pieces of metalwork, enamels, lacquerwork and ceramics, including works by most of the known masters from the middle of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The collection has demonstrated the unrivalled virtuosity of these remarkable works of ´art-craft´ and has facilitated new studies of their genesis and progression. In addition to the collection of Japanese Meiji period arts, the Khalili Collections comprise Three Hundred Years of Japanese Kimono (1700-2000), the Arts of the Islamic World (700-2000), Swedish Textiles (1700-1900), Spanish Damascened Metalwork (1850-1900), Enamels of the World (1700-2000), Aramaic and Bactrian documents (400 BC-AD 700), and Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage (800-2000). Together the eight collections comprise some 25,000 works and are fully catalogued in an ongoing series of over 40 volumes. For a current list of published titles, visit www.khalili.org. Gregory Irvine is Senior Curator in the Asian department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published widely on many aspects of Japanese art, and has held senior teaching positions both in the UK and Japan. Tayfun Belgin, Director of the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, John House, former Emeritus Professor, Courtauld Institute, London, Axel Ruger, Director of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Kris Schiermeier, Director of the Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, the Netherlands, Hiroko Yokomizo, Associate Professor (Curator), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.) |
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