his course will introduce the differences between the concepts and terminology of ‘Orientalism’, ‘Chinoiserie’ and ‘Japonism’ and makea clear case for the influences stemming from Japanese art on thedevelopment of Western art and design in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The artists and woodblock print designers of the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan had a huge impact on many Western artists who saw their work for the first time when Japan opened its trade to the West. Artists like Whistler, Monet, Klimt, Van Gogh, Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard, Cassatt and Dunand used Japanese composition and design ideas in bold new works of the period. Many artists collected Japanese prints for their daring designs and bright colour, and some, like Van Gogh, actively copied the works of Hiroshige to understand their underlying form. In architecture and design, Japanese concepts influenced Josiah Conder, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, EW Godwin
and many others to create a new visual language that resulted in the Modernist movement and influenced design style, graphics and fashion in twentieth-century Western art.

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