JapanAmerica
Subtitle: points of contact, 1876-1970
By: Nancy E. Green, Neil Harris, Hina Hirayama, Christopher Reed, Steve Ridgely, Alicia Volk, Bert Winther-Tamaki ; edited by Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed
Contributors: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Crocker Art Museum
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781934260258
Subjects: American Art; Exhibitions; Decorative arts; Influence; Japanese influences; Japonism; Japanese Art; History
Other titles: Japan, America
Description: "The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is delighted to present 'JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970', which explores the role of artistic exchanges in Japanese-American relations through the lens of international expositions, those 'world's fairs' that periodically give countries the opportunity to show off the best and most innovative aspects of their contemporary culture to hundreds of thousands of visitors. It highlights the cross-cultural dialogue that developed between Japan and the United States over nearly a century, providing a stunning visual overview of the powerful influence that Japanese aesthetics had on American avant-garde painting, printmaking, decorative art, and design. Through a wide selection of outstanding artworks and the re-creation of several ephermeral displays shown at various fairs, 'JapanAmerica' vividly illustrates American perceptions of Japan and the ways that these perceptions were conditioned by Japan's contributions to international expositions. The show chronicles the changes within the two cultures as the world's artistic, political, and social landscape underwent major upheavals."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, August 27-December 18, 2016, and at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, February 12-May 27, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Lenders to the exhibition -- Director's foreword / -- Stephanie Wiles -- Acknowledgements / -- Nancy E. Green -- Preface / -- Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed; title: Made for each other :; title: Japan at American World's Fairs  -- Neil Harris; title: Words and objects in the Japan craze in Boston, 1880-1900  -- Hina Hirayama; title: "A fan with a stork flying over" :; title: The Japanese impact on american aesthetics  -- Nancy E. Green; title: From soft power to hard sell :; title: Japan at american expositions, 1915-1965  -- Alicia Volk; title: Aesthetic Diplomacy :; title: "Creative prints" in postwar era  -- Christopher Reed; title: Japanese modernist artists and designers at expo 67 in Montreal  -- Bert Winther-Tamaki; title: Past, present, and future at expo 70 -- Steve Ridgely-- Works in the exhibition-- Credits.