Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America in the Early Twentieth Century
Softbound
2006 · Madison, Wisc
by Brown, Kendall H. and Nancy Green and Andrew Stevens
Madison, Wisc: Chazen Museum of Art, 2006. Softbound. VG (Few marks from previous gallery owner.; one corner slightly bumped.). Light bluish, color illustrated wraps. 139 pp., 72 color and additional bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2006-2007 exhibition. The three essays each focus on the influences and contributions made to the international style by three countries: Japan, Britain, and America. Japanese audiences and artists were intrigued by the styles and techniques of western art, which was broadly available in Japan by the end of the nineteenth century. Artists there created images of the strange foreigners and imagined what American cities looked like. By the beginning of the twentieth century, artists were not content to merely imagine what the other side of the world looked like. As prints traveled around the globe for study so did artists, and with them spread the tricks and techniques of color woodblock printmaking as well as appreciation for the prints. Woodblock printmakers in the West started to investigate Japanese processes, and Japanese publishers began to seriously seek out the print market outside of Japan. (Inventory #: 123259)