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Abstract How are we to interpret the many allusions and borrowings from Far Eastern cultures, and Japan in particular, in French painting of the 1950s and 1960s? After an overview of the Parisian scene, we'll focus on the work of Jean Degottex …

Abstract Japan was ostracized as a nation after the Second World War, and one of the ways it paid for its defeat was in the way it was portrayed in the comic strips that flourished in post-war France and around the world. Over the course of a generation, …

Abstract It was at the Venice International Theater Festival in 1954, then in Paris in 1957 at the Théâtre des Nations, that the first European performances of nō theater took place, until then only known through a few translations of librettos, at the …

Abstract After the Second World War, interest in Japanese culture in the Western world resumed on the basis of an extremely unequal balance of power. As part of a re-establishment of Japan's image centered on Japanese-American relations, Japanese fashion, …

Abstract In France and elsewhere, contemporary Japan crystallizes a whole imaginary world of deviance. Often caricatured as a country lax on pedo-criminality and the objectification of women, it arouses a mixture of attraction and repulsion that is highly …

Abstract We'll be looking at the idea behind the Japanese martial arts, as they are practised all over the world. Martial arts of Far Eastern origin are often treated outside Japan as if they were one of the essences of Japanese culture. France and the …

Abstract One aspect of Japonism studies that has not been sufficiently explored is the artistic phenomenon of the "return of Japonism" from France to Japan. There are many examples of Japanese painters who went to France and, consciously or unconsciously, …

Abstract Roland Barthes' L'Empire des signes (The Empire of Signs) is often regarded by specialists, if not as the product of pure fantasy, then at least as the imaginary manifestation of an unparalleled semiologist. However, given its repercussions on …

Abstract Almost non-existent until then, alien to the Japonism of the second half of the 19th century, reference to Zen became insistent and polymorphous in the arts, literature and thought, and even in certain broader sectors of the social body (martial …