The New York Times

THE UKIYO-YE ARTISTS.; Dora Amsden's Study of Japanese Color Prints Before and After Hokusai.*

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Berkshire Eagle

REVIEW: Go for the Japanese woodblock prints, stay for the art history lesson

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...
Boston College Heights

McMullen Museum Showcases 18th and 19th Century Japanese Prints

On Thursday, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art showcased 18th- to 19th-century Japanese prints and paintings taken from its permanent collection of 3,000 art objects. Led by museum curator Diana ...
Yahoo

These Japanese prints may be famous, but look closer – they’ve been censored

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century ...
Hyperallergic

Japan’s Tattoo Art, in Classic Woodblock Prints

Utagawa Kunisada I (also known as “Toyokuni III”), Rooster: Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Danshichi, from the series A Collection of Popular Birds in Accordance with Your Wishes, 1860, woodblock print ...
Hyperallergic

Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints

Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of ...
Times Union

Style, methods clash with 20th century Japanese prints at Clark

Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Evening at Sado, 1938. Woodblock print. Photo, the Clark Kawase Hasui, "Late Autumn in Ichikawa," 1930. Color woodblock print. Photo, Clark Art ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Japanese Artist Chiura Obata Came to Be an American Great

With landscapes infused with an emotion borne of a life of struggle, this master receives his due in this traveling retrospective now at the Smithsonian Alicia Ault - Museums Correspondent Great ...
Yahoo

The Japanese pop artists and rule breakers whose work blurred boundaries

Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject matter is so distinctively Japanese. But that couldn’t last. The same ...
CNN

How Japanese prints inspired a tattoo frenzy

Calves bulging and back rippling with sinewy muscles, Du Xing – a bandit in the Chinese martial arts novel “Water Margin” – moves towards a precipice. His arms are raised overhead, clutching a massive ...