Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist George Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, was renowned in Japan but barely known in his own country. Even today, examples of his cartoons appear in Japanese school textbooks. Inspired by what he saw of Japanese culture and way of life at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878, Bigot managed to find his way to Japan in 1882 and immediately set about developing his career as an artist working in pen and ink, watercolours and oils. He also quickly exploited his talent as a highly skilled sketch artist and cartoonist. His output was prodigious and included regular commissions from The Graphic and various Japanese as well as French journals. He left Japan in 1899, never to return. The volume includes a full introduction of the life, work and artistry of Bigot by Christian Polak, together with an essay by Hugh Cortazzi on Charles Wirgman, publisher of Japan Punch. Wirgman was Bigot’s ‘predecessor’ and friend (he launched his own satirical magazine Tôbaé in 1887, the year Japan Punch closed). Georges Bigot and Japan also makes a valuable contribution to Meiji Studies and the history of both Franco- and Anglo-Japanese relations, as well as the role of art in modern international relations.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- PART I: TWO BIOGRAPHIES
- INTRODUCTION: GEORGES BIGOT – SATIRIST OF MEIJI JAPAN AND ARTIST EXTRAORDINARIE
- CHARLES WIRGMAN (1835– 1891)1 ARTIST, JOURNALIST AND CARICATURIST – FORERUNNER TO GEORGES BIGOT IN JAPAN
- PART II: ALBUMS AND ENGRAVINGS
- GEORGES BIGOT’S ‘ETERNAL JAPAN’
- ASA Complete album
- O-Ha-Yo Complete album (excluding ASA duplications)
- Croquis Japonais Complete album
- PART II Continued: OILS, WATERCOLOURS, GOUACHES AND PASTELS
- PART III: FROM TȎBAÉ TO THE GRAPHIC
- GEORGES BIGOT"S ‘MODERN JAPAN’
- Tôbaé
- Tôbaé Sport
- La Journée d’une Guesha à Tokio Complete album
- Le Potin
- Potins de Yoko
- La Vie Japonaise
- Scénes de la Vie Japonaise Twelve dinner plates
- Sketches from Siberia
- Selection of Georges Bigot’s illustrations for The Graphic
- PART IV: FROM LA VIE EN ROSE TO TRADITIONAL PATTERNS
- GEORGES BIGOT’S NEW LIFE IN FRANCE
- La Vie en Rose
- Images d’Epinal
- L’Illustration
- Dans l’Oreille de Bouddha
- Shocking au Japan
- Journal des Voyages
- L’Indiscret
- Le Petit Parisien
- ‘Le chemin de la gloire’
- L’Album Marian
- Coup de Balai
- Villegiatures
- Draft sketches for Bigot’s Almanach des Postes et des Télégraphes series
- Proposed illustrations for Pierre Loti’s Les Derniers Jours de Pékin
- Traditional design patterns
- ‘The assignation’
- BIBLIOGRAHY
- Catalogues of the Principal Exhibitions Relating to the Works of Georges Bigot
- Publications About Georges Bigot
- List of Albums of Copper Plate Engravings and of Humorous or Satirical Journals Published Periodically in Japan by Bigot
- Journals and Reviews to Which Bigot Contributed in Japan
- Books Illustrated by Bigot Published in Japan
- Illustrated Books or Compositions by Bigot Published in France or Other Countries
- Journals and Reviews to Which Bigot Contributed and Which Were Published in France or Outside Japan
- Index
- Back Cover
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