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Japonisme

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Japonism, Japonisme
a style of art, idiom, custom, mannerism, etc., typical of the Japanese.
See also: Art, Japan


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WILCOX; METRO PICTURES) and 5 PALAST (TACITA DEAN; 51ST VENICE BIENNALE) In contrast to Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9--a bloated voyage into japonisme, whale fat, and cockle-shell backpacks--these two works are touchingly modest, truly romantic in their rendering of the end of things.
The Japonisme invented by Victorian ethnographers "made it difficult to imagine the island nation as a political aggressor," and thus Winnifred found an outlet to investigate, and take advantage of, the notion of ethno-racial difference with relative impunity.
Unlike most publications on Japonisme, a European art movement that incorporated Japanese elements into Western art and flourished in Paris from 1860-1890, this study transgresses the conventional focus on Japonisme artists and their works and concentrates exclusively on the roles that both Japanese and European art dealers and collectors played in the acquisition as well as cross-cultural exchange of Japanese artifacts in the late nineteenth-century.
 
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