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JAPAN juxtaposes its ancient arts with its modern technological achievements: the delicacy of flower arranging and a model of the world's fastest train, woodblock printing and powerful microscopes. Dominating the three-building complex is one of the finest works of art created for the fair-Masayuki Nagare's thunderous stone wall, carved out of lava rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...cover of the report, normally showing a University scene, this year features a Chinese woodblock print from the Fogg Art Museum collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Reports Trend at University Towards Interest n Whole World | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

FOGG: CONTEMPORORY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS. a representative collection of twentieth century work illustrating sixty years of Japanese-American friendship--at least, in the realm of art. RECENT ACQUISITIONS: a Sung Dynasty SEATED BUDDHA which the museum claims is "handsome" (Buddha would have modestly denied it); also, THE MANDOLIN by Georges Braque...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDAR | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW SHAPES IN OLD WOOD | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere, on the lips of men and on flags and bits of paper stamped with woodblock imprints of the sacred words: "Om mani padme hum [Hail, the jewel in the lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow towers at crossroads, and revolves constantly in the prayer wheels in every temple, nearly every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Three Precious Jewels | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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