消费文化与日本艺术在西方的传播周小仪一、东方艺术作为唯美主义者的艺术理想西方对日本和其它东方国家的发现可以追溯到马可·波罗时代。据说马可·波罗曾说过中国人和日本人用黄金构建他们的屋顶。不过现代西方对日本的兴趣，或西方学者所说的“日本时代的到来”，①还... Consumer Culture and the Spread of Japanese Art in the West Zhou Xiaoyi 1. The Artistic Ideal of Oriental Art as an Aestheticist The West’s discovery of Japan and other oriental countries dates back to the Marco Polo era. It is said that Marco Polo said Chinese and Japanese built their roof with gold. However, modern Western interest in Japan, or Western scholars said “the arrival of the Japanese era,” ① also ...