Strong Women, Beautiful Men
Kit, Leiden
2005
Kit, Leiden
2005
Strong Women, Beautiful Men
Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art
Laura J. Mueller
Shin-hanga, literally meaning "new prints," was the name
given to a Japanese artists’ movement in the early years of
the twentieth century. It sought to revive the traditional
style of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Edo period (1610-
1868). The connection between shin-hanga and the
Toledo Museum of Art began when Yoshida Hiroshi, one of
the leaders of the movement, and his artist wife met J.
Arthur MacLean and Dorothy Blair, at that time connected
to the John Herron Art Museum in Indianapolis. When Mr.
MacLean and Miss Blair established Toledo’s Asian Art
Department in 1927-28, they decided to collaborate with
their friends the Yoshidas on two exhibitions of modern
Japanese prints, which took place in 1930 and 1936. This
book accompanies the Museum’s exhibition, Strong
Women, Beautiful Men, which explores the concept of the
human form in Japanese woodblock prints. Many of the
works in the extensive Toledo collection deal with the
genre of popular figures, such as Kabuki actors in famous
roles and bijin-ga, images of beautiful women
96 pp., 9 3/4" x 11 3/4, 50 color illustrations, December
2005
New
Softcover $ 47.00
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