Japanese Bestiary

Nelly Delay

Art historian and graduate of the Louvre high school, Nelly Delay was an art critic at Combat and in various Swiss and Italian magazines before specializing, since 1963, in the study of ancient Japanese art. She organized Japanese art events in Paris from 1974 to 1984, for which she published texts on little-explored subjects and books on old Japanese drawings and paintings and the influence of Japanese culture on Western art. Since 1989, she has devoted herself to publications and conferences within the framework of different cultural organizations and the OECD. Two of her titles are available in English: The art and culture of Japan and Japan: the fleeting spirit.

Dominique Ruspoli

Writer and photographer Dominique Ruspoli holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sorbonne University, France, and specialized in the aesthetics of Western thought. She lectured on written communication and psychology. In her writings Dominique Ruspoli has addressed such varied subjects as psychodrama, the humorous drawing, the Etruscans, Venice and the Lascaux cave. She has also published books on the Japanese artists Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kyôsai. Since 2000, she has been a member of the College of Pataphysics.