Full description Is Japonisme also a history of architecture? In this book, the authors lay bare the origins of the taste for Japanese architecture in the West. Born long before what French nineteenth-century art critics called Japonisme, this taste can be detected in a wealth of objects: screens, porcelain, lacquer-work, woodcuts, photographs, as well as in interior decoration and garden pavilions. With more than 500 illustrations in colour, this handsome book presents noteworthy historical and archaeological studies of the best-known buildings from the heyday of Japonisme: the pavilions at the Paris Universal Exhibitions between 1867 and 1900; the first Japanese house built in France (1886); the Salle de fêtes, a function room on the rue de Babylone in Paris known today as the cinéma La Pagode (1896); the follies in Albert Kahn’s Japanese garden at Boulogne-Billancourt (1897); and the Stork Chamber, an exhibition set salvaged by Émile Guimet in 1911. These investigations reveal an interplay in artistic output between Japan and France that is essential to an understanding of those Japanese spaces held in such high regard by Westerners. Leafing through the book, the reader is left in no doubt about the emergence in architecture of a stately expression of Japonisme. top Contents Prologue Jean-Sébastien Cluzel GENESIS: BEFORE 1854 Before 1854 Back to the origins of Japonisme in architecture Jean-Sébastien Cluzel FIRST SEMIOPHORES FROM JAPAN Paper castles Two screens known in Europe at the turn of the sixteenth century Ilaria Andreoli Architecture as depicted on lacquer from the Edo period Geneviève Lacambre The reception of Japanese architecture in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries An impossible meeting Stéphane Castelluccio HEYDAY: 1834–1914 1834–1914 A period to be considered Jean-Sébastien Cluzel EXHIBITING JAPAN: FROM MINIATURES TO MONUMENTS The Paris Universal Exhibitions, 1867–1900 Windows onto Japan Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère (featured topics: J.-S. Cluzel) Models of Japanese Architecture, 1840–1937 The collection at the musée du Quai Branly Jean-Sébastien Cluzel, Marion Gautier and Nishida Masatsugu Charles Garnier Japan in The History of Human Dwellings Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris Marie-Laure Crosnier Leconte Alexandre Marcel The Pagoda, a Japanese salle de fêtes (1896) – Archaeology of an avant-garde building Jean-Sébastien Cluzel, Angélique Saadoun, Hironaga Kōsuke Nishida Masatsugu, Grégory Chaumet and Rémi Brageu Alexandre Marcel The Japanese Tower and the Chinese Pavilion in Brussels – The story of a construction (1901–9) Chantal Kozyreff Émile Guimet Flight of the storks: Kyoto, London, Paris, Lyons (1910–2016) Sébastien Cluzel, Agnès Latour Kurashige, Nishida Masatsugu, Yagasaki Zentarō, Grégory Chaumet and Camilla Cannoni RELIVING JAPAN: ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE Hugues Krafft The plan of the house at Midori no Sato drawn by Félix Régamey Omoto Keiko (featured topic: Yagasaki Zentarō and Nishida Masatsugu) Hata Wasuke An artistic Japanese gardener in France Suzuki Junji A few introductory words about Albert Kahn’s garden Christian Lemoing Albert Kahn Japanese pavilions and gardens – Boulogne, 1897–2017 Jean-Sébastien Cluzel Albert Kahn A perfect illusion of Japan Sigolène Tivolle Albert Kahn Archaeology of a Japanese legacy Jean-Sébastien Cluzel, Agnèès & Guy Latour Kurashige, Yagasaki Zentarō Nishida Masatsugu, Shibukawa Yoshikazu, Catherine Lavier, Muriel Bordessoulles Elsa Van Elslande, Laurence de Viguerie, Grégory Chaumet and Rémi Brageu OVERTURES Albert Carré ‘A journey from the place Favart to Japan’ The production of Madame Butterfly at the Opéra-Comique (1906) Michela Niccolai Photography A new way of presenting Japanese architecture in the nineteenth century Cecile Laly Pierre Loti The Japanese pagoda Romain Billon Japanese beauties Houses of ill fame at the dawn of the twentieth century Marion Di Santi and Jean-Sébastien Cluzel Japanese architecture in guidebooks before 1925 Ready for an authentic journey? Hélène Morlier Nakamura Jumpei The first Japanese architect to graduate from the École des beaux-arts in Paris Yoshida Koichi Epilogue Jean-Sébastien Cluzel Bibliography Index top Contributors Ilaria ANDREOLI Doctor in history of modern art, ITEM, CNRS – Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Romain BILLON Gardener and lecturer, Albert Kahn Garden, Department of the Hauts-de-Seine Muriel BORDESSOULLES Student, master’s course 2 in art history and archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University Rémi BRAGEU Research officer, UMR 8220, CNRS – Sorbonne University Camilla CANNONI Doctoral research fellow, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University Stéphane CASTELLUCCIO HDR Research Fellow, CNRS – Centre André- Chastel, UMR 8150 Grégory CHAUMET Research officer, Plemo 3D, Sorbonne University. Jean-Sébastien CLUZEL Associate professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University Marie-Laure CROSNIER LECONTE Honorary head conservator of heritage Christiane DEMEULENAERE-DOUYÈRE Honorary general conservator of heritage, corresponding member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré, CNRS-EHESS-MNHN, Paris Laurence DE VIGUERIE Research fellow, UMR 8220, CNRS – Sorbonne University Marion DI SANTI Student, master’s course 2 in art history and archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University Marion GAUTIER Student, master’s course 2 in art history and archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University. Chantal KOZYREFF Honorary conservator of the Far Eastern collections at the Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Brussels. HIRONAGA Kōsuke Student, master’s course 2 in the history of architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology Geneviève LACAMBRE Honorary general curator of heritage, head of mission at the Musée d’Orsay Agnès LATOUR KURASHIGE Architect DPLG Guy LATOUR KURASHIGE Architect DPLG Cecile LALY Doctor of art history, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University. Catherine LAVIER Researcher in archaeodendrometry, Research and restoration centre for French museums (C2RMF), head office for heritage, Ministry of Culture Hélène MORLIER Research engineer and doctoral student at EHESS, CETOBaC (CNRS, EHESS, Collège de France) Michela NICCOLAI Doctor of music and musicology, associate member of IHRIM – Lyon 2 NISHIDA Masatsugu Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology OMOTO Keiko Former librarian of the Japanese collection, Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet Angélique SAADOUN Student, master’s course 2 in art history and archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sorbonne University SHIBUKAWA Yoshikazu Master carpenter SUZUKI Junji Emeritus professor, Keio University Sigolène TIVOLLE Head of the cultural promotion unit, Directorate for Parks, Landscapes and the Environment, Department of the Hauts-de-Seine, France Elsa VAN ELSLANDE Research officer, UMR 8220, CNRS – Sorbonne University YAGASAKI Zentarō Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology YOSHIDA Koichi Emeritus university professor, Yokohama National University top Enquiries Contact the publishers for further information: Enquiries top How to order the book See details. top