MAEKAWA Senpan
(Japan 1888–1960)
- Title
- Mt. Kongô in Korea, from the series New hundred views of Japan
- Alternative title:
- Shin Nihon hyakkei: 32 Chôsen Kongô-zan
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Shôwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Year
- 1938-1939
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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22.7 x 30.3 image; 25.3 x 32.9cm support
- Signature & date
- Signed u.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "[artist's seal]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1997
- Accession number
- 8.1997.22
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This series of prints is a unique set of prints in two ways: at least thirty contemporary artists collaborated in a single series of landscape prints, depicting both famous places & scenery of modern urban life. This series is a product of the Creative Print Movement, a modern movement in printmaking which began early in the 20th century by artists who designed, blockcut & printed their own work with a clear intention of creating works of art as opposed to `surimono', reproductions. Due to the intensification of WWII, publication of the series was stopped by the Japanese authorities who feared that the interior of Japan would become known to its enemies.
- Bibliography (1)
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AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Curator), Hanga: Japanese creative prints, Sydney, 2000, 86 (colour illus.), 101, 109-100. cat.no. 4.9vii
- Exhibition history (1)
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Hanga: Japanese creative prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 Oct 2000–07 Jan 2001.
