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    Influence of Japanese Art on Design

    Influence of Japanese Art on Design


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    • Format: Hardcover
    • 224 pages
    • Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
    • Published: October 2008
    • ISBN-10: 1586857495
    • ISBN-13: 9781586857493

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    During America's Gilded Age (dates), the country was swept by a mania for all things Japanese. It spread from coast to coast, enticed everyone from robber barons to street vendors with its allure, and touched every aspect of life from patent medicines to wallpaper. Americans of the time found in Japanese art every design language: modernism or tradition, abstraction or realism, technical virtuosity or unfettered naturalism, craft or art, romance or functionalism. The art of Japan had a huge influence on American art and design. Title compares juxtapositions of American glass, silver and metal arts, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewelry, advertising, and packaging with a spectrum of Japanese material ranging from expensive one-of-a-kind art crafts to mass-produced ephemera. Beginning in the Aesthetic movement, this book continues through the Arts &Crafts era and ends in Frank Lloyd Wright's vision, showing the reader how that model became transformed from Japanese to American in design and concept.
    Hannah Sigur is an art historian, writer, and editor with eight years' residence and study in East and Southeast Asia. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is completing a PhD in the arts of Japan. Her writings include co-authoring A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design (Timber Press, 2002), which is listed in 'The Best Books of 2002' by The Christian Science Monitor and is now in its second edition; and 'The Golden Ideal: Chinese Landscape Themes in Japanese Art,' in Lotus Leaves, A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design (2001). She lives in Berkeley.
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