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Because they could be inexpensively reproduced, Japanese wood-block prints, or ukiyo-e, made art available to the masses. Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers (George Braziller; 192 pages; $75) presents 91 surviving color prints from a 19th century master of the form. Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) was enormously successful with subjects more commonly portrayed in wood blocks: landscapes and scenes of urban night life. The prints of birds and flowers collected here harked back to an older Chinese tradition and became popular as well. The formula -- literally an arrangement of birds and plants -- only sounds narrow. Hiroshige's inspired variations...
...Yumi E. Ando...
...seniors--Yumi Ando, Leslie Barbi, Jane Looney, Leean O'Connell, Lynley Ogilvie, Emily Ozer, Franny Peale and Tamsyn Seimon--will be ending their careers on an ambivalent note. They will not be able to measure themselves against Western competition, and they will have lingering memories of their loss to Slippery Rock in the Eastern Tournament...
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...Ando's buildings are precise and almost ostentatiously austere. He is seeking purity and purification. His town houses in Tokyo and Osaka are jewel- box bunkers, the concrete facades rigorously designed compositions of door, windows, fabrication scars and joints. The Protestant chapel (1985) on the top of Mount Rokko, outside Kobe, was the perfect Ando commission. "The process of preparing ourselves for the spirituality of religion takes time," he says, and so the entrance to the chapel is a colonnaded tunnel. The chapel itself is a deep, 24-ft. by 24-ft. concrete box, with one side an expanse...