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These prints are the highest aesthetic expression of what could be called a \"culture of pleasure,\" pervaded by the awareness that the beauties of life must be enjoyed to the full because they are bound to end. The book offers a chance to discover the world of Japanese ukiyo-e prints through over 300 works by some of the most important artists, and the themes that characterize them: from elegant female beauties to delicate flowers and birds, famous kabuki actors, valiant samurai, and even erotic subjects with their insouciant celebration of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49724585312529,"sku":"GOR013772917","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747403309329,"sku":"NGR9788857249971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51064262426897,"sku":"NIN9788857249971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8857249972.jpg?v=1750904161"},{"product_id":"japan-arts-and-life-book-francesco-paolo-campione-9788857247724","title":"Japan Arts and Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the many ways one can approach a distant country, there are studies, travel, and a special sensitivity that allow a person to distinctly interpret the reasons behind a culture. In the case of Jeffrey Montgomery and his splendid collection all three of these elements interact in a surprisingly harmonious way. The works he has collected during his lifetime lead to the very heart of Japanese art, accompanying us on a fascinating journey to discover the aesthetic ideals of a civilization that goes back millennia. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Lugano, the volume presents one hundred and seventy works from the period between the 12th and 20th centuries - including textiles, furniture, paintings, religious and everyday-objects - carefully selected from the over one thousand objects collected over a lifetime by Jeffrey Montgomery.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Renowned worldwide, the Montgomery Collection displays an extraordinary richness and a very singular substance: it is a collection of \"oriental art\", and at the same time it expressed a \"folk culture\" reinterpreted in very elevated aesthetic terms by the elegant and refined choices made by the collector who had dedicated his entire life to it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edited by Francesco Paolo Campione, in collaboration with Moira Luraschi, \u003ci\u003eJapan Arts and Life\u003c\/i\u003e contains the essays by Francesco Paolo Campione (\u003ci\u003eAn Impermanent Journey between Art and Life\u003c\/i\u003e); Matthi Forrer (\u003ci\u003eCollecting Japanese Art Objects\u003c\/i\u003e); Rossella Menegazzo (\u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Japan. 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The results were surprisingly beautiful and the subjects represented so lifelike that the finest works were difficult to distinguish from modern colour photographs. These masterpieces were created by European and Japanese artists who, in the first place, were responding to the desire of Western travellers to take home a souvenir of Japan, especially since the forced modernization of the Meiji epoch (1868-1912) was in the process of visibly transforming the country from a medieval society into a modern industrial nation.From both a technical and an aesthetic point of view, the style of what came to be known as the School of Yokohama - its name taken from the major centre of propagation - represents the height of nineteenth-century photography. Its dominant qualities are the positive value of emptiness and shadow and a search for the patterns, geometries and \"ideographic vision\" of space. The images are permeated with a sense of nostalgia that recalls the sweet portraits of Utamaro and the bold perspectives of Hokusai.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The subjects of the photographs render the vision, at times even in the smallest details, of a culture profoundly committed to the search for the subtle harmony between things: landscapes, buildings, interior architectures, scenes of daily life, and portraits of men and women, and even the subjective images of flowering tree branches convey the sensation of a world suspended inside an ineffable aura of perfection, an enchanting but fragile and exotic universe destined to disappear at the dawn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201494581521,"sku":"NGR9788857244136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/885724413X.jpg?v=1750904156"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-francesco-paolo-campione.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}