Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan
Subtitle: The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (Architecture Series)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; Wiley
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780471289661
Subjects: Individual Architect; 1867-1959; Criticism and interpretation; Japanese influences; United States; Wright, Frank Lloyd,; Architecture
First sentence: 'Japanism,' the late-nineteenth-century Western vogue for things Japanese, which developed primarily from French Japonisme, was closely related to the general heightening of European and American interest in aesthetics and decorative design during the second half of the nineteenth century stemming from the Aesthetic Movement.