A major new survey of an internationally significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints. This wide-ranging volume brings together over seventy five significant woodblock prints from the collection of Worcester Art Museum, MA, spanning three hundred years, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. Organized chronologically, it begins with rare, and in some cases unique, examples of Edo-period (1603?1868) woodblock ukiyo-e prints, many of which were sourced from the museum's seminal John Chandler Bancroft collection, donated in 1901. Encompassing a diverse range of sizes, materials, and subjects, among the renowned artists represented are Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Hiroshige. This volume then surveys later periods and artists associated with Japanese print output during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Meiji (1868?1912) and Taisho (1912?1926) periods including many produced by artists working as part of the Shin-hanga "new prints" and Sosaku-hanga "creative print" movements. The works from this time period include designs by such influential artists as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kamisaka Sekka, Hashiguchi Goyo, Yoshida Hiroshi, Koshiro Onchi and Ito Shinsui. Finally, later post-war prints featured in the catalogue, dated to the 1950's onwards, manifest the influence of international art movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Popart. AUTHORS: Fiona Collins is curatorial researcher of Asian Art, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Sarah E. Thompson is curator of Japanese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Quintana Scherer is assistant professor, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. SELLING POINTS: . Features iconic examples by the great Edo and Meiji Japanese masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, works by early twentieth-century Shin-hang movement artists, and contemporary print practitioners reinterpreting traditional wood-block printing. . Accessible and rewarding for both those curious about Japanese art and prints and for a scholarly audience. . Should be required reading for a range of under-graduate and post-graduate courses on Japanese art, social history, literature, and poetry. 100 colour illustrations
