| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PART I : TWO BIOGRAPHIES -- INTRODUCTION: GEORGES BIGOT -- SATIRIST OF MEIJI JAPAN AND ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE -- Contributors -- CHARLES WIRGMAN (1835-1891): ARTIST, JOURNALIST AND CARICATURIST -- FORERUNNER TO GEORGES BIGOT IN JAPAN -- PART II : ALBUMS AND ENGRAVINGS -- GEORGES BIGOT'S 'ETERNAL JAPAN -- PART II Continued : OILS, WATERCOLOURS, GOUACHES AND PASTELS -- PART III : FROM TO- BAÉ TO THE GRAPHIC -- GEORGES BIGOT'S 'MODERN JAPAN -- PART IV : FROM LA VIE EN ROSE TO TRADITIONAL PATTERNS -- GEORGES BIGOT'S NEW LIFE IN FRANCE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
"Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist Georges Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who during the last two decades of the nineteenth century recorded the changing face of Japan as its people, politics and preoccupations moved from their traditional cultural base to become a modern, industrialized state."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bigot, Georges, 1860-1927 -- Catalogs
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| SUBJECT |
Bigot, Georges, 1860-1927 fast |
| Subject |
Drawing, French -- 19th century -- Catalogs
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ART / Techniques / Painting.
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Drawing, French
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Catalogs
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Polak, Christian, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781898823766 |
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1898823766 |
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