Description
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Published 1981. Wraps, 40 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of Japanese woodblock prints.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Pale orange pictorial wraps with white lettering, the front wrap reproducing the woodblock print "Chinese Men." Light bumping to the cover edges and some color loss along the edges. The back cover shows sticker residue with associated color loss and a faint circular ghost mark, along with a small scrape near the upper left corner. A small nick to the color at the top edge of the spine. Staple bound and the binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked.Catalog of the exhibition held at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, October 3 to December 1, 1981, drawn from the Nagasaki and Yokohama prints donated to the museum by Richard B. Gump. The catalog reproduces twenty-three woodblock colored prints from the second half of the 19th century, with introduction by Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence and curatorial text by Yoshiko Kakudo. The prints document how Japanese artists depicted Western ships, foreigners, foreign buildings, modes of transportation, and foreign cities during the opening of Japan to foreign trade.Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Curator's Notes; Nagasaki Prints; Yokohama Prints (Foreign Ships; Foreigners; Street Scene; Transportation; Foreign Cities; Miscellaneous); Selected Bibliography.