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An
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E.Palmquist |
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Gallery Two: Japonisme The distinctive characteristics of Japanese design influenced the decorative arts and fine arts of the West. Tiffany made elaborate silver services in the Japanese style and European painters like Monet and Van Gogh were inspired by Japan's famous colored wood-block prints. By 1876, the French art critic Philippe Burty came up with a name for it: japonisme. Gilbert & Sullivan's celebrated comic opera The Mikado, which opened in both London and New York during 1885, intensified the fever for all things Japanese. With more Japanese goods, from fans to kimonos, available in Western shops The Mikado may have been the impetus for a rash of exotic studio portraits in which Americans pose as Japanese. In Japan itself, an item or two of Western clothing-- a bowler hat or an umbrella -- occasionally appears in photographic portraits of this time. |
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Unidentified
Photographer (U.S.) Tintype,
circa 1885 Approximately
3.5 x 2.25 inches Bertherman
Studio (Providence, Rhode Island) American
Girl in Japanese Costume Gelatine-silver
Cabinet Card, circa 1895 Image
size 5.5 x 4 inches Bradley
Studio (Ft. Collins, Colorado) Gelatine-silver
print circa 1895 5.5
x 4 inches Catharine
Weed Barnes (U.S., 1851-1913) Photogravure,
1890 9.5
x 7.5 inches G.
W. Horton (Beaver Dam and Horicon, Wisconsin) Six
Young Men Posing As Japanese Women Albumen
print cabinet card, circa 1886 Bradley
& Rulofson (San Francisco) Albumen
print cabinet card, 1886 image
size 5-5/8 x 4 inches Unidentified
Photographer (U.S.): Tintype,
circa 1885 Approximately
3.5 x 2.25 inches Japan
Photographic Association, Yokohama ( Baron Raimund Von
Stillfried and Hermann Andersen) Japanese
Gentleman in Western Garb tinted
albumen print, 1875-8
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