Full Description
Hiroshige. Shaping the Image of Japan is a comprehensive overview of Utagawa Hiroshige's work as a woodblock print artist. Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the great masters in the history of Japanese printmaking and has worked in virtually every genre of ukiyo-e or 'images of the floating world'. He achieved his greatest fame through his depictions of the Japanese landscape, which were not only popular in Japan, but also found favor with European artists at the turn of the 19th century.
Contents
Themes of the introduction:
Hiroshige: the early years
Japan's travel hype: the culture of movement
Hiroshige's breakthrough: the development of the landscape genre and his first creative surge
Hiroshige's cultural milieu: poets, publishers and colleagues
A creative pause: the 1840s
Hiroshige's final years: glory days.
Hiroshige's techniques of design
The appreciation of Hiroshige in Japan and the West
