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Details
- Alternative title
- Shin Nihon hyakkei: 23 Shiga Kôgen yasetsu
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- 1938-1939
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 29.8 cm image; 24.9 x 32.7 cm mount
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] " [artist's character]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Yasuko Myer Bequest 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.1997.17
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Kobayashi Asaji
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About
This series of prints is a unique set of prints in two ways: at least thirty contemporary artists collaborated in a single series of landscape prints, depicting both famous places & scenery of modern urban life. This series is a product of the Creative Print Movement, a modern movement in printmaking which began early in the 20th century by artists who designed, blockcut & printed their own work with a clear intention of creating works of art as opposed to `surimono', reproductions. Due to the intensification of WWII, publication of the series was stopped by the Japanese authorities who feared that the interior of Japan would become known to its enemies.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Hanga: Japanese creative prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 2000–07 Jan 2001
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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AJIOKA, Hanga: Japanese creative prints, '1930s-1950s: Consolidation of Hanga and the individualists', pg. 70-98, Sydney, 2000, 85 (colour illus.), 100, 109-110. cat.no. 4.9iv In this publication this work is titled 'Shiga heights in snow at night'.
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