Monet & Japan Condition:Well Read Not - as often imagined

Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart

comes an edge-of-your seat adventure

Description: Another favourite of our curator's list of bundles

magic has gripped the imagination

Stunning in their simplicity

Monet & Japan Condition:Well Read Not - as often imaginedMonet never traveled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's