Alejandro M. Sanz Guillén
Researcher at the Department of Art History of the University of Zaragoza. Currently developing my PhD about the construction of the image of Japan in Europe through the illustrated European books published during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Member of the Japan Group (Grupo Japón), interdisciplinary research group of the University of Zaragoza on Japanese studies and of the Japan and Spain Group: relationships through art (España y Japón:relaciones a través del arte), created with the aim of the study of the presence and impact of Japanese art in Spain.
In addition I dedicate myself to art critic and diffusion of contemporary culture as founder, editor and coordinator of the Cultural Magazine Kalós.
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Personal investigador en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Actualmente desarrollando mi tesis doctoral acerca de la construcción de la imagen de Japón en Europa a través de los libros ilustrados europeos publicados durante los siglos XVII-XVIII. Miembro del Grupo Japón, grupo de investigación interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza sobre estudios japoneses y del Grupo Japón y España: relaciones a través del arte,creado con el fin de abordar el estudio de la presencia e impacto del arte japonés en España.
Además de mi faceta como investigador me dedico a la crítica de arte y difusión de la cultura contemporánea como fundador, redactor y coordinador de la Revista Cultural Kalós.
Address: Zaragoza
In addition I dedicate myself to art critic and diffusion of contemporary culture as founder, editor and coordinator of the Cultural Magazine Kalós.
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Personal investigador en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Actualmente desarrollando mi tesis doctoral acerca de la construcción de la imagen de Japón en Europa a través de los libros ilustrados europeos publicados durante los siglos XVII-XVIII. Miembro del Grupo Japón, grupo de investigación interdisciplinar de la Universidad de Zaragoza sobre estudios japoneses y del Grupo Japón y España: relaciones a través del arte,creado con el fin de abordar el estudio de la presencia e impacto del arte japonés en España.
Además de mi faceta como investigador me dedico a la crítica de arte y difusión de la cultura contemporánea como fundador, redactor y coordinador de la Revista Cultural Kalós.
Address: Zaragoza
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[en] Despite the isolationist measures decreed by the Japanese government during the first decades of the 17th century, some Dutch East India Company workers were allowed to visit the archipelago during the Edo period. One of the most famous was the German physician Engelbert Kaempfer, author of The History of Japan, one of the most significant and popular European descriptions of Japan published during the Early Modern Period. This title was of great importance on Western writers and was an important reference for anyone interested in the Land of the Rising Sun. But beyond that, it was also a very relevant reference for different authors of the French, English, and German Enlightenment. This paper aims to study the influence that the German doctor’s descriptions may
also have had in our country during the Enlightenment, a task that has not been tackled until now.
Abstract: François Caron and his vision of Japanese art in the early 17th century Abstract. During the first decades of the seventeenth century, when relations between Europe and Japan were in crisis, François Caron lived in the Japanese archipelago. This worker of the Dutch East India Company remained in the Land of the Rising Sun from 1619 to 1641, reaching the position of opperhoofd (chief manager) of the Dutch trading post at Hirado. During his stay in the islands, Caron had the opportunity to be in contact with Japanese culture and learn the language. His knowledge of the country was such that his superiors of the Dutch company commissioned him a report answering various questions relating to the islands. This document was published for the first time in 1646 in Amsterdam under the title Beschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijk Iapan, being republished and translated on numerous occasions in the following years. Caron's work had an enormous impact and gives valuable information on Japanese society at the beginning of the Edo period, being one of the most important texts on Japan published in Europe during the Early Modern Period. In the following paper we will analyze Caron's references to Japanese artistic manifestations, studying the vision that the author reflected on them.
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Tras las ediciones de 2014, 2016 y 2018, las Jornadas buscan generar un foro de debate y mantienen sus primeros objetivos: facilitar el diálogo, el intercambio de ideas y la discusión en torno a los principios, enfoques y metodologías que están siguiendo los jóvenes investigadores en Historia del Arte; y convertirse en un instrumento para la difusión de su trabajo de modo que se facilite su incorporación a la comunidad científica.
“Desde Aragón” nos abrimos a la recepción de investigaciones desarrolladas en toda España ya sean de temática local, nacional o internacional, al tiempo que ponemos en valor el patrimonio histórico-artístico del territorio aragonés que viene acogiendo las Jornadas.
[en] Despite the isolationist measures decreed by the Japanese government during the first decades of the 17th century, some Dutch East India Company workers were allowed to visit the archipelago during the Edo period. One of the most famous was the German physician Engelbert Kaempfer, author of The History of Japan, one of the most significant and popular European descriptions of Japan published during the Early Modern Period. This title was of great importance on Western writers and was an important reference for anyone interested in the Land of the Rising Sun. But beyond that, it was also a very relevant reference for different authors of the French, English, and German Enlightenment. This paper aims to study the influence that the German doctor’s descriptions may
also have had in our country during the Enlightenment, a task that has not been tackled until now.
Abstract: François Caron and his vision of Japanese art in the early 17th century Abstract. During the first decades of the seventeenth century, when relations between Europe and Japan were in crisis, François Caron lived in the Japanese archipelago. This worker of the Dutch East India Company remained in the Land of the Rising Sun from 1619 to 1641, reaching the position of opperhoofd (chief manager) of the Dutch trading post at Hirado. During his stay in the islands, Caron had the opportunity to be in contact with Japanese culture and learn the language. His knowledge of the country was such that his superiors of the Dutch company commissioned him a report answering various questions relating to the islands. This document was published for the first time in 1646 in Amsterdam under the title Beschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijk Iapan, being republished and translated on numerous occasions in the following years. Caron's work had an enormous impact and gives valuable information on Japanese society at the beginning of the Edo period, being one of the most important texts on Japan published in Europe during the Early Modern Period. In the following paper we will analyze Caron's references to Japanese artistic manifestations, studying the vision that the author reflected on them.
Tras las ediciones de 2014, 2016 y 2018, las Jornadas buscan generar un foro de debate y mantienen sus primeros objetivos: facilitar el diálogo, el intercambio de ideas y la discusión en torno a los principios, enfoques y metodologías que están siguiendo los jóvenes investigadores en Historia del Arte; y convertirse en un instrumento para la difusión de su trabajo de modo que se facilite su incorporación a la comunidad científica.
“Desde Aragón” nos abrimos a la recepción de investigaciones desarrolladas en toda España ya sean de temática local, nacional o internacional, al tiempo que ponemos en valor el patrimonio histórico-artístico del territorio aragonés que viene acogiendo las Jornadas.