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“East Meets West” and I wrote a book about it!

Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by my page 🙂 I won’t often post here, but today I have good news: my book, East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism, is now available for purchase as a Kindle e-book or as a paperback.

In this book, my art-historical research lens focuses on Japanisme, the 19th century wave of Japanophilia that took over France, thanks to the island nation opening its ports for international trade. Specifically, it focuses its gaze a few decades earlier, on Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji (c. 1830-2), to analyze how this particular series successfully addressed Japanese ambivalence towards the West both in medium and composition. I also argue that this print series influenced the likes of Whistler and Monet to kick-start impressionism.

So it’s a lot! But hopefully engaging and coherent along the way 😀

I’ve written more about the subject at INKBRUSHMOOD, an art-historical blog where I occasionally write about ukiyo-e, and at Ediciones Pluma Verde, a small publisher of poetry, artbooks, fiction and non-fiction.

I’d love to get reviews on this! If you are interested in a free book, e-mail me at hello@robmarielopez.com and I will send you a copy for review.

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Update! (July 5th, 2026)

Some of my e-books are on sale over at Smashwords—by sale, of course, I mean that they’re free! 😀 Sale is for July only, so here are some links to get started:

📖 East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2056728

📖 Tropiflexión —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

📖 Cineterapia: Película Cómo Metáfora —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

Of course, these books are also available for the Kindle at less than $10! So you might want to check that out as well 🙂

WindMa.Net is now live!

Hello Everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Mostly I’ve been busy with life; however, I’ve also set up a dedicated art portfolio—which is now live! You can check it out at windma.net.

After working on the Collage 26 hardcover prototype, I was emboldened to expand it into a full-length photobook, eponymously titled “Collage 26.” While working on it, I had the chance to think about what motivated to engage with collage. At the risk of waxing philosophic, to me collage-building inspires me to think about how memories (or dreams) are made. In this context, sensory experiences are like the building blocks that become assembled into fuller perceptions.

It is said that, when you remember an event, you are not recalling the actual memory but a memory of a memory. The type of collage work that I do seems to explore that idea, since the image is essentially constructed from random bits and pieces that eventually become full visual forms. At some point, the idea itself becomes assembled; this idea has a bit of memory, a bit of imagination—a bit of present moment, combined to form a work that can be interpreted myriad ways.

Digital photography functions in a similar way. One captures a specific moment; a particular perception, brought about by a state of heightened awareness. When one takes a photo, one is increasingly aware of the transience of life. So working with a photograph, the original idea is evoked, as well as one’s interpretation—could be of the original mood tied to the original moment, or the one that emerged on revisitation. Of course, there are myriad shades of perception driving that photographic transformation. But, for me, digital art follows that line of thinking.

So anywho! Collage 26 is now officially available through Amazon, as both e-book and paperback.

The e-book is currently FREE until May 28th!

The paperback is currently available at $14.99. I wish I could lower the price but, a lot of effort went into this artwork! Mostly I originally conceptualized Collage 26 as an exhibition contained in a book, so the paperback is the culmination of that endeavor. Of course, the same experience could be had with the electronic book, but we already stare at so many images through so many screens… a paperback exhibit is a nice change of pace.

Feel free to send me your comments, questions, or reviews (I would really appreciate this latter—!!) to hello@robmarielopez.com. Or, better yet, send them to Wind Ma at contact@windma.net. You can also follow (her) on Blue Sky! @windmanet.