Name: Printed to Perfection By Amy Reigle Newland
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Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection by Amy Reigle Newland

Robert O. Muller can be considered the most important collector in the world of 20th century Japanese prints. He amassed over 4500 designs, tracing back the artistic developments of the past century to the Meiji period (1868-1912). His holdings, now in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., include the finest possible examples of artists specialized in the portrayal of female beauty such as Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Ito Shinsui (1898-1972) and Torii Kotondo (1900-1976), the earliest and best works of the two major landscape artists Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) as well as numerous works by other, less famous artists providing a comprehensive and fascinating overview of the Shin hanga ('New Print') movement. Robert O. Muller's exquisite taste and critical attitude has resulted in a collection in the finest imaginable condition. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art staged the first major exhibition from this collection in the months of November and December of 2004. This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition from the donation to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art of over 4000 prints by the American collector Robert O. Muller, held November 6 2004-2 January 2005.

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"Displayed in a large-size, high-quality trade paper volume are over 100 prints from the collection of the noted collector Robert O. Muller (d. 2003) which have been bequeathed to the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Besides the artist, name, and date for each print, there are informative annotations on the career of the artist and the subject and style of the print. Most of the prints are in the 20th-century Japanese style of "shin-hanga binga," whose artists were "struggling to acknowledge tradition and at the same time transcend it." Introductory essays cover Muller as an influential collector and place the prints in the context of Japanese artistic traditions. The varied aspects of the text, including a "Glossary," provide a historical overview of Japanese prints as well as a representative catalog of prints from the Muller collection of more than four thousand."--Midwest Book Review

About Amy Reigle Newland

Joan B. Mirviss is an expert and dealer in Japanese art, specializing in prints, paintings and contemporary ceramics. She received her M.A. degree in Japanese art history from Columbia University. She has lectured widely at museums and universities in the United States and Japan, and has contributed scholarly articles to numerous Asian art publications. She has also curated or assisted in the preparation of both international and US exhibitions of Japanese prints. In 2000 she curated an exhibition and authored the accompanying catalogue entitled Jewels of Japanese Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka and Bunsei Era for the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 1995 she curated the exhibition of the Frank Lloyd Wright surimono collection at the Phoenix Art Museum, and co-authored the accompanying catalogue The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono (with John Carpenter). She is currently serving as a consultant to the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with respect to the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amy Reigle Newland has worked as a specialist editor and writer on Japanese woodblock prints for some fifteen years, with a particular interest in works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In either and editorial and/or authorial role, her publications include Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period (2005), Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection (2004), A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (2004), The Commercial and Cultural Climate of Japanese Printmaking (2004), Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints (2003), Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 (2001), Time Present and Time Past: Images of a Forgotten Master - Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 (1999), Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 (1998), and The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection (1993). The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2005) is her most ambitious project to date, one which was coordinated from her home in rural New Zealand where she lives with her husband, son and flock of sheep.

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CIN9074822738VG

ISBN 13

9789074822732

ISBN 10

9074822738

Title

Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection by Amy Reigle Newland

Author

Amy Reigle Newland

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Brill

Year published

2004-01-01

Number of pages

132

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