Erotic japonisme
Subtitle: the influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western art
By: Ricard Bru ; translation from Spanish [by] Amalia Ran
Contributors: Ran, Amalia, translator
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789004258327
Subjects: European Art; Erotic art; Influence; Japanese influences
Work titles: Japonismo
Description: Erotic Japonism is the first monograph on the collecting practices of shunga (Japanese erotic prints) in Europe at the turn of the 19th century, most of all among the most renowned artists, and their use as a source of inspiration for them. The publication will take a new look at commonly held perceptions about history of art, revealing surprising dialogues among greatly talented artists such as Rodin, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Beardsley, Sargent, Klimt, Utamaro, Hokusai or Kuniyoshi, as well as many others. -- Publisher.
Notes: Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: The eighteenth century and romantic orientalism ; The arrival and first appraisals of Shunga in mid nineteenth-century Europe; title: The Western encounter with Shunga. The early European discovery of Shunga ; Sporadic encounters during the Edo period ; The opening of Japan and the spread of Shunga in Europe; title: Collections of Japanese erotic art in Europe and their dissemination. The first Parisian collectors ; Shunga in Western publications; title: The impact of Shunga on European art. The appeal to artists ; The French milieu ; Octopuses of pleasure and death ; The Belgian case ; The British contribution ; The European diffusion of Shunga at the turn of the century ; Shunga as an enduring influence in twentieth-century art.