Japanomania in the Nordic countries, 1875-1918
By: edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, & Hanne Selkokari
Contributors: Suomen taiteen museo Ateneum; Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design (Norway); Statens museum for kunst (Denmark)
Series: Ateneum publications -- vol. 75; Ateneumin julkaisut -- no. 75.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789462301214; 9789527067246; 9780300220117
Subjects: Japanese influences; Art; Japonism; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: "This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Christopher Dresser, Pietro Krohn, Alf Wallander, and Frida Hansen, among others, offers an unprecedented study of Japanese influence on the visual arts in the Nordic countries. This unlikely diffusion of Japanese culture, known collectively as Japonisme, became increasingly apparent in England, France, and elsewhere in Europe during the 19th century, although nowhere was the influence seemingly as pervasive as it was throughout the Nordic countries. The book reveals how the widespread interest in Japanese aesthetics helped to establish notions of a fundamental unity between the arts and transformed the region's visual vocabulary. The adoption of Japanese motifs and styles in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark provided a necessary cohesion to their existing artistic language, forming a vital balance within and among all of the applied arts"--Publisher.
Notes: Catalog from an exhibition held at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, February 18-May 15, 2016;  National Museum of art, architecture, and design, Oslo, Norway, June 16-October 16, 2016; and National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 19-April 23, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : International Japonisme. The Japonisme phenomenon / Gabriel P. Weisberg; title: The Anglo-Japanese style and 'the great wave of Japanese influence' / Widar Halén; title: Early Nordic Connections.  Connecting with Japan: the transmission / Gabriel P. Weisberg; title: The first collections of Japanese art in Nordic countries / Widar Halén; title: From Japan to Finland: growing collections / Leila Koivunen; title: Pioneers in the North. 'Only the useless is beautiful' - those wonderful ladies in their kimonos / Anna Kortelainen; title: Art collector Herman Frithiof Antell: at home in Paris, abroad in Japan / Susanna Pettersson; title: Following the Japanese trail: Karl Madsen and Arnold Krog - Danish aspects of nature in pen and porcelain, 1885-1900 / Malene Wagner; title: Jens Thiis and the interest in Japan / Ellen J. Lerberg; title: Japanese woodcuts in Finnish exhibitions and collections / Leila Koivunen; title: A New Aesthetic Language in Nordic Art. Japonisme, national identity and a new aesthetic idiom / Widar Halén; title: The ideal of simplification: Japonisme's most persistent manifestation in Nordic art? / Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff; title: From prop to total work of art: a Japanese perspective on Nordic interior painting / Nils Ohlsen; title: The second wave in Finland: exhibitions of Japanese aesthetics and Japonisme organized by Gustaf Strengell / Hanne Selkokari; title: Cutting Edge Techniques. Textile art and Nordic Japonisme at the Friends of Finnish handicraft / Leena Svinhufvud; title: A hint of Japan: Japonisme in Edvard Munch's and Nikolai Astrup's prints / Trine Nordkvelle; title: Japan's influence on Nordic photography 1900-1914 / Nils Ohlsen; title: Nordic Nature.  From blade of grass to sacred wilderness: changing the concept of nature / Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff; title: Norwegian nature in a Japanese costume: Japonisme in Thorolf Holmboe's and Theodor Kittelsen's art / Vibeke Waallann Hansen; title: Japanomania Hits the Streets. Japan mania and the popular reception of Japonisme / Widar Halén; title: 'Copies without an original': Japonisme in popular postcard imagery / Harri Kalha.