Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan the Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
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Acknowledgements. Forewords. Introduction. 'Japanism' and the Boston orientalists. Japanese homes: the Japanese house dissected. The Ho-o-den: the temple and the villa married in south Chicago. Fenollosa and the 'organic' nature of Japanese art. Composition: the picture, the plan, and the pattern, as aesthetic line-ideas. The woodblock print and the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made and social forms. Okakura and the social and aesthetic 'Ideals of the East'. Japan itself: giving and receiving in 'Yedo'. Japan as inspiration: analogies with Japanese built-forms. Japan as confirmation: the universal manifested in the particular. Appendices: summary of events; biographical sketches; Kakuzo Okakura's catalogue of the Ho-o-den; Ernest Fenollosa's essay on 'The Nature of Fine Art'; Frederick Gookin's reviews of Kakuzo Okakura's books; glossary. Bibliography. Illustration acknowledgements. Index.
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