LOOKING EAST/ WESTERN ARTISTS AND THE ALLURE OF JAPAN

A craze for all things Japanese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought a correspondingly radical shift in West ern art, dubbed Japonisme. Leading artists, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, were inspired by Japanese art and culture t o create works of singular beauty. This lavishly illustrated publication explores an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural exchange by presenting a selection of major paintings, prints, drawings and decorative arts from the renowned collections of the Museum of F ine Arts...[Read more]