Sentences with phrase «placed woodblock prints»

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By investigating the intersection of American art, East Asia, and the woodblock print movement, Visions of the Orient explores the various ways that «the orient» served as a liberating professional space for these female artists and as a place of creative inspiration.

For example, her seminal work Home is a Foreign Place consists of 36 woodblock prints, each of which represents a particular memory of home.

Detail: Yase Village from the series Famous Places in Kyoto, n.d. woodblock print, by Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797 - 1858).

When the first public exhibition of modern - style woodblock prints took place in Shanghai in June 1931, it heralded an explosive art movement that helped shape the course of modern Chinese art history in the 20th century and has remained a vital part of contemporary China» s artistic language.

Twentieth — Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989 (Catalogue) Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 8, 1989 — February 18, 1990 (Catalogue) Contemporary Woodblock Prints, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, December 6, 1989 — March 3, 1990 (Catalogue) Seattle: Before and After, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, October 5 — November 27, 1989 Artist of the South Fork, Baruch College Gallery, City University of New York, September — November 3, 1989 Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Malcolm Morley, Sigmar Polke, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, September 16 — October 7, 1989 Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self — Portraiture, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, September 10 — November 5, 1989 Art in Place, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 7 — October 29, 1989 Contemporary Art from the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, The Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, June 18 — October 1, 1989 First Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, June 4 — September 10, 1989.

June 24 - October 6, 2010 Consisting of works from the UAMA permanent collection, this exhibition focuses on woodblock prints from the nineteenth century and explores the print - making process, everyday life in pre-modern Japan, and the cultural exchange that took place between Japan and the Western world.