Ernest Francisco Fenollosa : Complete Catalogue of Collection of Specimens of...

by Yamaguchi, Seiichi (EDT)

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Ernest Francisco Fenollosa : Complete Catalogue of Collection of Specimens of Japanese Art, Hardcover by Yamaguchi, Seiichi (EDT), ISBN 4861662125, ISBN-13 9784861662126, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1), 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 not 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 not 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 not 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 not are no longer in the Mus

• ISBN: 9784861662126
• Condition: Fine

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