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.