Ernest Francisco Fenollosa - Complete Catalogue of Collection of Specimens of Japanese Art

Author:   Seiichi Yamaguchi
Publisher:   Editon Synapse
ISBN:  

9784861662126


Pages:   398
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Ernest Francisco Fenollosa - Complete Catalogue of Collection of Specimens of Japanese Art


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Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1857-1908), often cited as the father of Japanese art, is also the founder of the Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, one of the finest collections in the field. This publication is the facsimile reprint and its transcription of the only remaining notebook of Fenollosa and will make available for the first time the catalogue of his collection of Japanese paintings described by the collector himself. The remarkable point of this notebook is that Fenollosa mentions his opinions on Japanese art in his own voice whereas many of his other writings both in English and Japanese are often modified by editors or translators as many of them were published posthumously. The notebook consists of four parts; the title page, the preface, the catalogue and the index. Each entry of the catalogue includes the artist name and the title of painting followed by ""commentaries and notes"" which show interesting, suggestive and sometimes critical views on each painting. Fenollosa sold the collection of Japanese art to Dr. Charles Goddard Weld, another Bostonian collector, with the understanding that it was to remain permanently in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston as the Fenollosa-Weld collection. Though some items catalogued in this notebook are no longer in the Museum’s collection, the majority of the masterpieces in the catalogue are still held there and we can appreciate their images in the museum’s website with the new commentaries based on today’s studies, which are quite different from the ones in this notebook by Fenollosa. In the transcribed entry of each item in this volume the accession numbers to the MFA’s database are added for the easy reference to the original works. With a new introduction and editor’s notes by Seichi Yamaguchi, the leading expert on Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, this catalogue is a vital source of information for those who study Japanese art and Japonisme and its reception in the US and the West.

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Author:   Seiichi Yamaguchi
Publisher:   Editon Synapse
Imprint:   Editon Synapse
Weight:   1.297kg
ISBN:  

9784861662126


ISBN 10:   4861662125
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Seiichi Yamaguchi, Professor Emeritus, Saitama University

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