Author: PUT, MAX
Title: Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West 1860-1930
Description: Hotei Publishing, Leiden. 2000, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9789074822091). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 25 cm.; 0.5 Kg.; 151 pages. Used with signs of wear on the exterior of the dust jacket. Interior with minor sings of wear, except for the end free endpaper which has been bent in the past. Good condition overall.; Plunder and pleasure is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth study of the role played by dealers and collectors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the Western craze for East Asian art was as its peak The book comprises an overview of Japonisme and the translation into English of two important French texts detailing the trade in Asian art at this time: Notes d'un bibeloteur au Japon by the art dealer Philippe Sichel (1839/40-99) aud Souvenirs d'un vieil amateur d'art de l'Extreme-Orient by the collector Raymong Koechlin (1860-1931). Both translations are extensively annotated. A discussion of the content and significance of the translations as well as short biographical sketches of Sichel and Koechlin are also included. Plunder and Pleasure casts new light on the subject of Western tastes for East Asian art during this period and furthers our understanding of the cultural relations between the Far East and the West that were going on at this time. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 9789074822091 japan,japanese art,japonisme Japanese Art


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