中文简介：

在了解一个遥远国家的许多方法中，研究、旅行和一种特殊的敏感性可以让一个人清楚地理解一种文化背后的原因。在Jeffrey Montgomery和他辉煌的收藏中，这三个因素以一种惊人的和谐方式相互作用。他一生中收集的作品引领着日本艺术的核心，伴随着我们进入一个迷人的旅程，去发现一个几千年前的文明的审美理想。本书在卢加诺展览期间出版，展示了12世纪至20世纪期间的170件作品，包括纺织品、家具、绘画、宗教和日常用品，精选于Jeffrey Montgomery一生中收集的一千多件物品。

蒙哥马利收藏品在世界上享有盛誉，展示了非凡的丰富性和独特的内涵：它是一个“东方艺术”的收藏，同时它表达了一种“民间文化”，由这位毕生致力于这种文化的收藏家所做出的优雅而精致的选择，以非常崇高的美学术语重新诠释。

英文简介：

Among the many ways one can approach a distant country, there are studies, travel, and a special sensitivity that allow a person to distinctly interpret the reasons behind a culture. In the case of Jeffrey Montgomery and his splendid collection all three of these elements interact in a surprisingly harmonious way. The works he has collected during his lifetime lead to the very heart of Japanese art, accompanying us on a fascinating journey to discover the aesthetic ideals of a civilization that goes back millennia. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Lugano, the volume presents one hundred and seventy works from the period between the 12th and 20th centuries – including textiles, furniture, paintings, religious and everyday-objects – carefully selected from the over one thousand objects collected over a lifetime by Jeffrey Montgomery.

Renowned worldwide, the Montgomery Collection displays an extraordinary richness and a very singular substance: it is a collection of “oriental art”, and at the same time it expressed a “folk culture” reinterpreted in very elevated aesthetic terms by the elegant and refined choices made by the collector who had dedicated his entire life to it.