Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index.

The Khalili collection: Japanese art exhibitions -- Foreword / Professor Nasser D. Khalili -- Introduction / Gregory Irvine -- Vincent van Gogh and Japan / Axel Rüger -- From Namban to Meiji: the availability and reception of Japanese art in the West / Gregory Irvine -- The presentation and reception of Japanese art in Europe during the Meiji period / Hiroko Yokomizo -- Viennese Japonisme: from the figured-perspective to the ornamental-extensive style / Tayfun Belgin -- Impressionism and Japan / John House -- Imitation or innovation? Van Gogh's Japonaiserie and Japanese art of the Meiji period / Kris Schiermeier -- Wakon Yosai -- Japanese spirit, Western techniques: Meiji period arts for the West / Gregory Irvine -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- International exhibitions -- Contributing authors -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Illustration acknowledgments -- Index.

"From the 1860s to the 1890s, the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant few could ignore or resist the obsession with all things Japanese. Superbly crafted and often highly decorated Japanese objects -- lacquer, metalwork, ceramics, enamels, and other decorative items -- stimulated and inspired Western artists and craftsmen to produce their own works. Arts of the Meiji period (1868-1912) were displayed at international exhibitions, in the galleries of influential dealers, and at fashionable stores. Artists from van Gogh, Whistler, Monet, and Edouard Manet to Klimt and Schiele were all, to varying degrees, influenced by the Japanese art. Van Gogh himself stated that he owed his inspiration to Japanese art, but he was probably not conscious of the full extent to which art in Europe had already been influenced by that of Japan."--Publisher website.