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Japanese Vision of the West: The World of the Meiji Print |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Julia Meech-Pekarik |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,569 Words, 9,746 Characters |
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Americans have long been familiar with Japanese prints, but that familiarity has not extended much beyond recognized Old Masters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries such as Utamaro and Hiroshige. The enforced opening of Japan to the West in 1859 inspired a flood of prints documenting the arrival of the first foreigners and the astonishingly rapid modernization of Japan. Brash, vulgar, popular, even garish in their use of chemical dyes, these works have long been neglected both in Japan and the West. Yet they express a reckless vitality, an excitement that echoes the exuberant spirit of a new, youthful Japan about to step onto the world stage for the first time as a major international power.
Educational as well as entertaining, prints also played a role in the incredible...
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...nal flowering of triptychs during the wars with China and Russia, the late 1890s marked the end of the traditional reportage-style cheap single-sheet print in Japan. Newspapers had taken root by this time, usurping the documentary role of the woodcut, and lithographs and photographs, products of modern technology, took over the role of portraiture, whether of beautiful women or Kabuki actors.
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