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Five centuries of Japanese painting.
The Perino Collection
Author and editor: Matthi Forrer
125 images of Kakemono in color
Pages: 208
Size: 26,5×23 cm
Softcover
ISBN: 978-88-572-4379-5
37€
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Eponymous exhibition page
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Edition produced by SKIRA that reproduces all 125 Kakemo from the Claudio Perino Collection presented in the exhibition. Author Matthi Forrer, Professor of Material Culture of Pre-modern Japan at Leiden University provides a comprehensive and scholarly history of the Kakemono in Japanese culture.
Marco Guglielminotti Trivel, East Asia Curator, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin and Francesco Paolo Campione, Director of the Museo delle Culture, Lugano, write the forewords to this edition. Moira Luraschi of the Museo delle Culture Lugano, presents an interview with the collector Claudio Perino on the occasion of the exhibition Kakemono.
CONTENTS
Foreword
By Marco Guglielminotti Trivel. East Asia Curator, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin
By Francesco Paolo Campione, Director, Museo delle Culture, Lugano
Japanese Painting
By Matthi Forrer
Works
By Matthi Forrer
Japanese Painting Traditions
Kacho¯-ga: Paintings of Birds and Flowers
Figures
Animals
Various
Plants and Flowers
Landscapes
Interview with Claudio Perino
By Moira Luraschi
Appendix
Short biographies of the painters
Selected bibliography
Biography of the author
© 2020 Fondazione culture e musei, Lugano
© 2020 Fondazione Torino Musei
© 2020 Skira editore
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