HANGA: Japanese Creative Prints Art Gallery of NSW 1st Edition 2000 - Scarce!

HANGA: Japanese Creative Prints 

Art Gallery of New South Wales 1st edition 2000 paperback with 110 pages.

Foreword by Edmund Capon, introduction by Ajioka Chiaki with essays by Nishiyama Junko and Kuwahara Noriko.

Profusely and lavishly illustrated on thick paper.

Chapters are; 

One aspect of creative prints: Tomimoto Kenkichi and his influence.

Onchi Koshiro’s pursuit of modernity in prints 1910s-1930s.

1. 1904-1914 The Dawn of the Creative Print

2. 1914-1919 Magazine Tsukuhae and the ‘expressionists‘

3. 1919-1930s The Japan Creative Print Association and the diffusion of printmaking

4. 1930s-1950s Consolidation of hanga and the individualists

List of Artists 

List of Works

Five decades of the of the Japanese print in the modern idiom. Japan‘s traditional graphic style with the ability to adapt to the images and incentives from unfamiliar worlds.