Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape - Pollard Clare
Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape - Pollard Clare Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful…
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Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape - Pollard Clare
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful both in Japan and in the West. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art.
Aimed at a general audience, this book illustrates and discusses 53 Hiroshige landscape prints in the Ashmolean Museum's collection and explores their historical background. Their unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and masterly expression of weather, light and seasons, proved enormously influential on many leading European artists. It gives a concise introduction to Hiroshige's life and career within the context of Japan's booming nineteenth-century woodblock print industry and explores the development of the landscape print as a