Shin Hanga The New Print Movement in Japan

Name: Shin Hanga The New Print Movement in Japan
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ISBN: 9780764940392

ISBN-10: 0764940392

ISBN-13: 9780764940392

Edition: 2007

Authors: Barry Till

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The shin hanga (?new print?) movement flourished in Japan for almost fifty years after being set in motion and nurtured by publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885?1962). Employing the traditional ?ukiyo-e quartet??a production system consisting of artists, carvers, printers, and publishers?shin hanga attracted Western as well as native artists. The studio teams created woodblock prints that updated traditional ukiyo-e (?pictures of the floating world?) prints by including Kabuki actor portraits, ?beauties, ? and landscapes and other nature themes, often birds and flowers. With lavish illustrations and expert commentary, Shin Hanga: The New Print Movement of Japan details the shin hanga movement…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 9.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694

Barry Till is the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Shin Hanga: The New Print Movement of Japan, Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868u1912), The 47 Ronin: A Story of Samurai Loyalty and Courage, and coauthor of Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry, all published by Pomegranate.