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An Aesthetic Experience: Japonisme in the North” Framing Japanomania
Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875–1918
In: Journal of JaponismeReview of the exhibition Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918 which opened at the Helsinki Ateneum Museum February 18, 2016. The exhibition examined over 400 works in all media that revealed how the mania for all things Japanese shaped Nordic aesthetics at the turn of the century. The exhibition goes on to Oslo and Copenhagen through 2017, and it has a catalogue published in five separate language editions with the English version being distributed by Yale University Press.
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See Weisberg, “Connecting with Japan: The Transmission,” p. 61, for a discussion of Krohn’s work within the international Japonisme scene; Malene Wagner, “Eastern Wind, Northern Sky: Japanese Art and Culture in a Danish Optic in the Latter Half of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries,” Journal of Japonisme I (2016): 41–65.
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Nils Ohlsen suggests, “The dealings of the Nordic artists with Japanese pictorial art represented more of a confirmation of already maturing ideas than a wholly new discovery,” see “From Prop to Total Work of Art: A Japanese Perspective on Nordic Interior Painting,” p. 175.
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Trine Nordkvelle, “A Hint of Japan: Japonisme in Edvard Munch’s and Nikolai Astrup’s Prints,” p. 206.
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Gabriel Weisberg, “Connecting With Japan: The Transmission,” p. 70. Gallen-Kallela’s painting Defense of the Sampo is prefigured in the exhibition by a woodcut of the same scene (1895), one of the closest in style and technique to the Japanese woodcuts.
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In 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) had to cancel a similar interactive activity that invited audiences to pose in kimonos in front of Claude Monet’s painting La Japonaise (1876) after protesters accused the museum of racism. See Steph Rodney, “The Confused Thinking Behind the Kimono Protests at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” in Hyperallergic, July 17, 2015.
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Ohlsen, “From Prop to Total Work of Art: A Japanese Perspective on Nordic Interior Painting,” p. 182.
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An Aesthetic Experience: Japonisme in the North” Framing Japanomania
Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875–1918
In: Journal of JaponismeReview of the exhibition Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918 which opened at the Helsinki Ateneum Museum February 18, 2016. The exhibition examined over 400 works in all media that revealed how the mania for all things Japanese shaped Nordic aesthetics at the turn of the century. The exhibition goes on to Oslo and Copenhagen through 2017, and it has a catalogue published in five separate language editions with the English version being distributed by Yale University Press.
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| Abstract Views | 562 | 79 | 5 |
| Full Text Views | 266 | 6 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 142 | 23 | 0 |