Hiroshige - landscape, cityscape
Subtitle: woodblock prints in the Ashmolean Museum
By: Clare Pollard, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe
Contributors: Pollard, Clare (Moyra Clare), author; Watanabe, Mitsuko Ito, author; Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781854442956
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Landscapes in art
Other titles: Landscape, cityscape
Description: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful both in Japan and in the West. Their unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and masterly expression of weather, light and seasons, proved enormously influential on many leading European artists. Aimed at a general audience, this book illustrates and discusses 53 Hiroshige landscape prints in the Ashmolean Museum's collection and explores their historical background. It gives a concise introduction to Hiroshige's life and career within the context of Japan's booming nineteenth-century woodblock print industry and explores the development of the landscape print as a new genre in this period. It also discusses and illustrates the process and techniques of traditional Japanese woodblock print-making. Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (09.12.2014-15.02.2015).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).