The women of shin hanga : the Judith and Joseph Barker collection of Japanese prints

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The women of shin hanga : the Judith and Joseph Barker collection of Japanese prints

edited by Allen Hockley ; with essays by Kendall H. Brown, Allen Hockley, Nozomi Naoi

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College , Distributed by University Press of New England, c2013

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Exhibition catalogue

Issued in connection with an exhibition held April 6 through July 28, 2013, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-259) and index

Contents of Works

  • Shin Hanga and the Persistence of Edo Culture / Allen Hockley
  • The Modern Beauty in Taisho Media / Nozomi Naoi
  • Dynamic Actors and Expanding Networks: The Rise of Shin Hanga in America in the 1920s and 1930s / Kendall H. Brown

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Shin hanga (new prints) were an early-twentieth-century revival of traditional Japanese woodblock prints that had enjoyed tremendous appeal during the previous two centuries. Though inspired by their predecessors, shin hanga artists engaged with issues specific to their own time, especially in their depictions of women, where traditional conceptions of femininity competed with Western fashions and the loose morals of "modern girls." Tracing the development of this fascinating visual culture, this exhibition catalogue examines the strategies shin hanga artists developed to retain and enhance the essential aesthetic qualities of traditional woodblock prints while negotiating dramatic changes in their social, cultural, and artistic environments.

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