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The Printer's Eye

9780939117604

The Printer's Eye

  • ISBN 13:

    9780939117604

  • ISBN 10:

    0939117606

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 10/08/2013
  • Publisher: Asian Art Museum of San
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Summary

Edwin Grabhorn (18891968), co-founder of the Grabhorn Press, Northern California's premier letterpress printer, was a pioneer American collector of Japanese prints. The Grabhorn prints in the collection of the Asian Art Museum comprise the upper echelons of the original collection. The collection includes a superb selection of early monochrome and hand-colored ukiyo-e prints by Sugimura Jihei, Torii Kiyonobu, Okumura Masanobu and others, from the seminal decades of the woodblock print production in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Japanese Prints from the Grabhorn Collectionmarks the first time these prints are being published in quantity for a wide audience. Leading scholars David Waterhouse and Julia Meech provide in-depth looks at the prints in their Japanese contexts and at Grabhorn's role as a print collector. Large full-color reproductions all 140 of the Grabhorn prints in the Asian Art Museum's collection are accompanied by brief entries by Melissa Rinne.

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