An Artist's Letters from Japan

Farge, John

Meiji-Era Travel Letters on Japanese Art, Temples, Gardens, and Aesthetics

11,80 €

ISBN: 9788027378166

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 226 g

Produktinformationen "An Artist's Letters from Japan"

An Artist's Letters from Japan is an epistolary travel book that records John La Farge's encounter with Meiji-era Japan through the eye of a painter, collector, and cultural interpreter. Its pages move from temples, gardens, theater, and ritual life to reflections on color, line, design, and spiritual atmosphere. Written in a cultivated, meditative prose, the book belongs to the late nineteenth-century literature of Japonisme while resisting mere exoticism through sustained aesthetic attention. La Farge, an American painter, muralist, writer, and pioneering designer of stained glass, was exceptionally prepared to perceive Japan as both subject and artistic revelation. His career had been shaped by religious art, decorative design, and a lifelong study of form across cultures. Traveling in Japan in 1886, in the company of Henry Adams, he found material that deepened his thinking about beauty, tradition, and the relation between art and daily life. This book is warmly recommended to readers interested in art history, travel writing, Japanese culture, and the cross-cultural imagination of the nineteenth century. It offers not only a record of Japan at a moment of transformation, but also a rare document of an artist learning how to see.

Eigenschaften "An Artist's Letters from Japan"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Reisen und Urlaub
Verlag:	e-artnow

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