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Item Number: 131441
Title: Gento-ban. Il Giappone dell'Ottocento nelle diapositive colorate della Collezione Perino
Author: Luraschi, Moira
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ISBN: 9788836629305
Description: Milano: Silvana, 2014. 23cm., pbk., 128pp., 160 color illus. Exhibition held at Museo delle Culture, Lugano. Summary: The exhibition is based on a selection of more than a hundred pieces from the Perino Collection. They are magic lantern glass slides, albumen photographs and color-lithographs collected by Claudio Perino, a doctor and a collector about Japanese art since more than two decades. These images bring visitors into the magic atmosphere of Japan at the end of Nineteenth century. The largest part of them are part of the so called Yokohama School, a topic which the Museo delle Culture is deeply interested in, since it is storing one of the largest collection in the world of albumen photographs (Ceschin Pilone/ Fagioli Collection) and promoting internationally exhibitions and conferences about. The exhibition shows the leading role of these images into the Western construction of imaginaries about Japan. This happened after the Meiji period (1868-1912), when finally Japan opened the boarders to foreign people. Meiji period was a very chaotic period, nevertheless the growing modernization of the country and the linked contradictions inside that brought Japan to be what it actually is. Mutual curiosities and reciprocal exotic visions between Japan and the West are shown in the subjects of Yokohama School: geisha and samurai, sumo wrestlers and kendôka, but also Westerns in rickshaw, Ainus with long beards, and gas lanterns along the streets in Japanese towns.

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