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Encountering the Floating World: Ukiyo-e and the West

Sunday, December 22, 2013 at 10:00am to 5:00pm

Johnson Museum of Art
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

This exhibition explores the important relationship of Japanese prints to modern and contemporary fine and decorative art, and how this relationship transformed Western art-making practice. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Japanese prints were avidly collected by Americans and Europeans, studied by Western artists working in many different media, and were used to teach art in new and innovative ways, to schoolchildren and at higher levels at art schools. The Japanese print aesthetic was rapidly assimilated in painting, glass, and furniture design, and that influence continues today. Drawn from the Johnson Museum’s collection, the exhibition includes work by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Tiffany, Whistler, and many others. The exhibition and catalogue are the product of two classes: a Spring 2013 art history seminar exploring the influence of ukiyo-e on the West, and a Summer 2013 Cornell’s Adult University class which examined the process of creating an exhibition.

This exhibition was curated by Nancy Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints and Drawings, 1800–1945, at the Johnson Museum, and supported in part by the Japan Foundation, the International Fine Art Dealers Association, and Madeline Noveck, Class of 1958.

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Exhibit

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Johnson Museum of Art

Website

http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions...

Cost

Free

Contact Phone

607 255-6464