James Whistler and «Chinamania»
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This article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the phenomenon of «Chinamania» on the artworks of the artist James Whistler. The artist was absorbed in Chinamania: he bought up objects of oriental art. In view of this, the purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of Chinese art on the artworks of James Whistler. Based on this goal, a number of tasks were formulated: to describe the specifics and problems of the socio-cultural phenomenon of Chinamania; to trace the reasons for the popularity of Chinamania with the help of socio-cultural and historical analysis; to conduct a formal stylistic analysis of Whistler’s artworks on the theme of the East. As a result, the author found out the genesis of a number of images in the artist’s artworks and established that blue-white Chinese porcelain was an important source for a number of his works («Peacock Room», «Princess from the Land of Porcelain»).
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