Narratives in Japanese Woodblock Prints : Association of Print Scholars

Narratives in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Allen Hockley.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States. 03/27/2019- 06/09/2019.

Exhibiting artist(s): Utagawa Kunisada.

Japanese woodblock-print artists produced numerous rich engagements with culturally resonant narratives that were often loosely based on historical events, then subsequently embellished in textual sources and their theatrical adaptations. The artists featured in this exhibition explore a wide and often gendered range of responses to those narratives’ emotionally charged moral and ethical dilemmas.

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Relevant research areas: East Asia, 18th Century, 19th Century, Relief printing

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Narratives in Japanese Woodblock Prints

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