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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970802
Author:Gayford, Martin

Walk into Monet's elegant diningroom at Giverny, and you will find Japanese prints on the walls. In the background of Manet's portrait of Emile Zola you will find the same. In the late 19th century, ownership of wood-block prints from Japan was a badge of membership of the avant-garde, rather as having a pickled sheep in your dining-room would be today. Therefore, one surmises, to Western eyes they must then have appeared shockingly, fascinatingly new. That is a little hard to believe, however, as one walks round the effortlessly enjoyable exhibition of prints by Hiroshige currently at the ...

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