Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism

We saw this exhibit at the Legion of Honor/ Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco a few years ago! I was so excited to find this beautiful book that has very similar art that was displayed!

These prints are really mesmerizing. The winter scenes are superb!

A fine choice of images and text. The contrast in subject matter and the more painterly imagery are clearly presented.

Beyond excellent for asian art lovers. This book is perfect for my arthistory research project and has a wide variety of illustrations <3 oh god this book was and WILL ALWAYS be a great idea! Gotta have this( Im that in love with this)

Outstanding show at the Legion of Honor this past winterin companion to the Post Impressionist show at the de Young. Outstanding show outstanding catelog.

Newsflash, to all the other idiots out there: Japanese prints were ALL in the age of Impressionism anyway! We're just gonna resell you all the old Hiroshiges you've already got, and make it sound like something new!For those even slower than me, who didn't figure that Lautrec borrowed from the Japanese when doing posters for the Parisian club 'Le Divan Japonais', there is a chapter telling you that toward the end.Japanese prints are not Japanesque, they are Japanese. The book's title therefore implies that it will be full of Japanesque Impressionism from France (or perhaps Impressionist ukiyo-e from Japan), but it is not.Some French guy Henri Riviere, did do one or two Japanesque paintings in France around that time (a bit like the later Tintin maybe), but the only significant one is on the cover of the book there.

Beautiful book with some prints I hadn’t seen before. Book was like new.