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The Leonard Lopate Show / May 30, 2008 / Utagawa: 19th Century Japanese Prints

Utagawa: 19th Century Japanese Prints

Friday, May 30, 2008

A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, ”Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900,” looks at the Utagawa School, which dominated the Japanese print market in the nineteenth century. They portray landscapes, warriors, and kabuki actors, and were produced for mass consumption. Joan Cummins is curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum.


Comments

  • [1] tom from nyc May 30, 2008 - 12:47PM

    How is it that these prints have retained their brilliant colors? Did they have modern pigments?
  • [2] hjs from 11211 May 30, 2008 - 12:50PM

    is this the Anime of their day?
  • [3] chestinee May 30, 2008 - 12:56PM

    I was taught that the ink was made with rice paste - no? (I used to make woodcuts)

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