Word: woodblocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woodblock prints have become synonymous with Japanese art. Later Japanese Prints by Richard Illing (Phaidon; 64 pages; $9.95), an anthology of 65 examples (33 in color), surveys the vital 19th century tradition in which the print was produced and sold as a popular, commercial art form. Broadsheets celebrating the Kiabuki theater, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, samurai heroes, and witches and demons from Japanese folklore sold like rice cakes in the capital of Edo, now Tokyo. Yet despite their wide appeal, these prints were the work of master craftsmen who painstakingly carved up to a dozen separate blocks to produce one multicolored...
...work of Shiko Munakata, a contemporary Japanese woodblock artist, is the subject of a third MFA exhibition. The museum is displaying several of Munakata's original woodblock prints in addition to photographs of many of his other works. "Flora and Fauna," a collection of about 35 prints and drawings, traces the development of natural history illustration from the 16th to the 19th century, and "Peter Rabbit and Other Tales--Art from the World of Peter Rabbit" is a show well-suited to our current age of nostalgia...
...more intimate exhibits at the Busch: Ernst Barlach, the "Transformation of Good," woodblock prints...
...Japanese Woodblock prints at the Law School Library and Modern Japanese Prints from the Art/Asia Gallery at 17 Quincy St., which is a nice house to look at even though Derek Bok didn't want to live there...
...artwork sold in the auction consisted primarily of etchings, woodblock designs, lithographs, prints and drawings. Some sculpture and pottery was also sold. Few oils were included. The majority of items sold for between...