The influence of Japanese art on design / Hannah Sigur.

By:

Sigur, Hannah

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 222 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:

9781586857493
1586857495

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

745.952 SIG

Contents:

Strange dreams and strange awakenings: the great face to face -- Arts and agendas on the public stage: the world's fairs -- International comings and goings: the crafting of an artful market -- Hither and thither: the Japan craze in America -- Ins and outs of a room: the tasteful speak "Japanese" -- Glass and walls: the creative assimilation -- Silver and bronze: the gladiators of the tabletop -- Clay and glaze: the journey to modern.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	745.952 SIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100562660

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-213) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgments (p. 6)
Prologue (p. 9)
Strange Dreams and Strange Awakenings: The Great Face to Face (p. 11)
Arts and Agendas on the Public Stage: The World's Fairs (p. 26)
International Comings and Goings: The Crafting of an Artful Market (p. 63)
Hither and Thither: The Japan Craze Crosses America (p. 90)
Ins and Outs of a Room: The Tasteful Speak "Japanese" (p. 101)
Glass and Textiles: The Creative Assimilation (p. 129)
Silver and Bronze: The Gladiators of the Tabletop (p. 151)
Clay and Glaze: The Journey to Modern (p. 172)
Epilogue (p. 206)
Bibl (p. 208)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

One hot and muggy July day, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry of the United States Navy sailed four black ships into Uraga Bay near the Shogun's capital city of Edo, forcibly terminating nearly 250 years of Japa nese self-imposed semi-isolation. Excerpted from Influence of Japanese Art on Design by Hannah Sigur All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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."