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Strong women, beautiful men : Japanese portrait prints from the Toledo Museum of Art / Laura J. Mueller.

Title
Strong women, beautiful men : Japanese portrait prints from the Toledo Museum of Art / Laura J. Mueller.
Author
Toledo Museum of Art
Publication
Toledo, Ohio : Toledo Museum of Art in association with Hotei Pub., Amsterdam, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Mueller, Laura J.
Description
96 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.
Summary
"Strong Women, Beautiful Men celebrates the Toledo Museum of Art's extensive Japanese woodblock print collection, which is remarkable for its pristine condition. Thanks to gracious collaboration with print designer and publisher Hiroshi Yoshida, the Museum presented two important exhibitions in the 1930s of shin hanga, or modern Japanese prints. examples of most of these prints entered the collection, augmenting a smaller group of eighteenth-and nineteenth century works. Curator Carolyn M. Putney and scholar Laura J. Mueller selected fifty prints to examine the changing appearance of the human figure and the evolving approach to portraiture. the selection includes examples that range from black-and-white illustrated books buy Nishikawa Sukenobu in the early eighteenth century through to full-color portraits by the modern masters Hashiguchi Goyo and Natori Shunsen. Images of celebrities are spotlighted, including renowned courtesans and beautiful women (bijin-ga) and famous kabuki actors (yakusha-e). Artists, carvers, printers, and publishers inventively used caricature, parody, stylization, and physiognomy in order to create compelling images that appealed to an increasingly competitive market."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
Japanese portrait prints from the Toledo Museum of Art
Subject
  • Toledo Museum of Art > Exhibitions
  • Prints, Japanese > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
  • Color prints, Japanese > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
  • Women in art > Exhibitions
  • Actors in art > Exhibitions
  • Prints > Ohio > Toledo > Exhibitions
  • Color prints, Japanese > Exhibitions
  • Portraits, Japanese > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9074822789
LCCN
^^2006356380
OCLC
  • 61666204
  • SCSB-10316564
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library