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Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: the role of traditional Japanese art and architecture in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

1994; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 31; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.31-4189

1943-5975

Kevin Nute,

Fashion and Cultural Textiles

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.