书名：Shin Hanga: The New Prints of Japan 1900—1950 / 新版画：1900-1950年日本的新版画
定价：350.0
ISBN：9789493039599
作者：Chris Uhlenbeck and Jim Dwinger
版次：1
出版时间：2022-03

内容提要：

题 目：Shin Hanga: The New Prints of Japan 1900—1950 / 新版画：1900-1950年日本的新版画

作 者：Chris Uhlenbeck and Jim Dwinger

出 版：Ludion，2022

装 帧：精装，224页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：23.5*29.2 cm

 

 

Japanese prints, and Japan in general, are highly popular nowadaysbr

Japanese printmaking in the first half of the 20th century is relatively unknownbr

Growing number of collectors of the genre of shin hanga [modern prints] in the US and in Europe

Book contains a unique selection of prints, drawn from two private collections, and from the family of publisher Watanabe, who was the driving force behind the new print movement

Accompanies a traveling exhibition in 3 countries

Twentieth-century Japanese printmaking has come in for relatively little attention. Classic Hokusai and Hiroshige landscapes and Utamaro's beautiful images of women remain the dominant form. All the same, since the 1990s museums and private collectors have shown a growing interest in shin hanga (‘new prints'): balanced designs printed on luxurious paper, with the finest pigments and in smaller editions. They are the fruit of the traditional yet highly successful collaboration between artist, publisher, block-cutter and printer. It is not so much in their subject matter as their visual language that shin hanga prints set themselves apart from their traditional precursors. Where the classically depicted women were stylized and idealized, their more recent counterparts are based on real models, individually recognizable and full of emotion. The modern landscapes, meanwhile, are impressionistic rather than figurative, using a range of color nuances to achieve highly atmospheric results. This book offers a unique selection with which to explore 20th-century Japanese printmaking. The prints it reproduces are mostly drawn from two large private collections, and, by way of great exception, items from the family collection of the publisher Watanabe, the man who started it all.