![]() ![]() Picture That features artists Chakaia Booker, Will Cotton, Timothy Cummings, Joseph Hart, Tom Lieber, Raymond Pettibon, Gustavo Rivera, Sara Sanders, and Chuck Webster. Phil Sanders, Master Printer, Author of Prints and Their Makers, and the curator of Momentum Gallery's Picture That summer printmaking exhibition will be in attendance for two special in-gallery events. “Nogaku zue” in Tsukioka Kōgyo, 月岡耕漁: The Art of Noh, 1869-1927 at the University of Pittsburgh Library.Chakaia Booker, UNTITLED, 2013, Chine collé monoprint with woodcut and hand painted elements, 33-3/4 x 28 inches Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: Kyōsai’s Hyakki Gadan Now at BICLM at the University Libraries To learn more about some of the pieces mentioned above, check out these blogs: ![]() Used to Print a Japanese Illustrated Travel Book, circa 1800s-1868 “Suzume no Matsubara” (“Sparrow in a Pine Grove”) Woodblock For scholars and instructors interested in viewing these materials, please do not hesitate to contact us! We look forward to sharing such materials with future classes and visitors to our special collections. The artifact is a rare survival of a woodblock employed in the printing of a Japanese illustrated travel book (title unknown) from the late Edo period (1600-1868). The last page reveals a complete color print, showing the painstaking technique behind the delicate woodblock printing technology.Ĭomplimenting this class further, this past spring we were delighted to include a newly acquired piece entitled “ Sparrow in a Pine Grove” (“Suzume no Matsubara”). Each re-printing on each page of the book shows only one color block on the left, facing a complementary print with the black outlines and all color blocks up to that point on the right. Focusing on one single view, or print, from Andō Hiroshige’s One hundred famous views of Edo, the book contains successive re-printings of “ Yabu Lane at the Foot of Atago” (Atagoshita yabukōji) on one continuous strip of paper folded in accordion style. In addition to over two dozen original woodblock prints, these open houses showcased a fascinating book from the Fine Arts Library, Ukiyo Junjozuri, about the history and technique of woodblock prints. Theatre in Nōgaku Zue produced by Tsukioka Kōgyo ca. Students discuss the vibrant images of Japanese Noh ( nōgaku) Also in the showcase was Nōgaku Zue (能樂圖繪)by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月岡, 耕漁, 1869-1927), a four-volume set of cloth-bound accordion books with canonical scenes from various Noh ( nōgaku) theater classics. Highlights included the elaborate Gyōsai Hyakki Gadan (曉齋百鬼画談), a color woodblock print by the eccentric painter Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋 暁斎, 1831-1889) and Gyōsai Gadan (暁齋畫談), an illustrated guide on art created by Kyōsai and Batei Kinga (梅亭金鵞, 1821-1893). Christina Burke Mathison of the Department of History of Art, these hands-on classes gave students the opportunity to observe the various details and still-vibrant colors of original woodblock prints ranging from the mid-1800s to the 1920s. Held across the University Libraries in the Theatre Research Institute, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, and the Billy Ireland and Cartoon Library, these historic prints were gathered and displayed together in the reading room of the Billy Ireland for students in Artistic Media and Techniques (HISTART 4005) last October and again for those in Art & Visual Culture of East Asia (HISTART 2003) in December and April. Students of HISTART 2003 observing original Meiji-era printsīy artists Kyōsai, Kiyochika, and ToshinobuĪs our reading rooms opened up again last year, we were thrilled to hold several open houses, featuring our manga collection as well as substantial holdings of woodblock prints (many of which are considered precursors to contemporary manga). ![]()
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