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...floating world" remained buoyant until the early 20th century, when the pleasure districts were undermined by the forces of modernization and Meiji-era reforms. The Grand Palais show's principal organizer, Guimet curator H?l?ne Bayou, sensibly stops at the late 19th century, when Japanese artists began to look beyond scenes of city life and toward the countryside. Thus, you won't find any works here by Katsushika Hokusai or Ando Hiroshige, two giants of Japanese landscape prints. Less defensibly, you also won't find much about the enormous impact ukiyo-e had on Western artists, especially France's own Impressionists...
...DIED. JEAN HELENE, 50, veteran West Africa reporter for Radio France Internationale; after a police officer shot him in the head following an apparent argument as H?l?ne waited to interview arrested opposition leaders; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Authorities arrested the officer believed responsible and the government fired the chief of the national police force...
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