| Description |
319 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. |
| Note |
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, N.Y., Mar. 16-June 17, 2012, the John and Mable Ringing Museum, Sarasota, Fla., July 14- Sept. 30, 2012, and the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 9-Jan. 19, 2014. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305) and index. |
| Contents |
Japanese Ambassador / Ichiro Fujisaki -- Collector's preface / by Robert and Mary Levenson -- Acknowledgments / by Lynn Robertson -- Introduction : Japan and "Art Deco" / by Kendall H. Brown -- Art Deco and japonisme / by Tim Benton -- On "things Japanese" in the 1930s / by Takanami Machiko -- The craftsman's utopia / by Kitamura Hitomi -- The modern girl : icon of modernity / by Vera Mackie -- Catalogue -- Notes to the catalogue -- Cultural appropriations -- Formal manipulations : abstract forms -- Formal manipulations : natural motifs -- Over and under the sea -- Social expressions : nationalism -- Social expressions : the floating world transformed -- The cultured home. |
| Subject |
Levenson, Bob, Dr. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Levenson, Mary -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Art deco -- Japan -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Japanese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Kendall H.
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Machiko, Takanami.
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Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). Gallery.
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John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
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Society of the Four Arts.
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| Added Title |
Shaping art and culture, 1920-1945 |
| ISBN |
0883971577 (pbk.) |
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9780883971574 (pbk.) |
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