Woodblock Kuchi-E Prints
Subtitle: Reflections of Meiji Culture
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780824820732
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Oriental art; Relief processes (eg woodcut, lino); c 1800 to c 1900; Design - Book; 19th Century Art; Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts; Techniques - Painting; Art & Art Instruction; Illustration of books; Art; Japan; Frontispiece; Asian; Techniques - Printmaking; Meiji period, 1868-1912; History - General; Color prints, Japanese
Description: "Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints.

Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century.

In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.