With Profit and Pleasure: Japanese Prints at Evergreen
Arts & Humanities
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54m
Presented in partnership with Lifelong Learning and Hopkins at Home, Lunch with the Libraries & Museums is a series of free, online, public lectures through which staff from the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums discuss ongoing research, teaching, and curatorial work.
In 19th-century Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” delighted the Japanese public with images of famous actors, dreamy landscapes, and idealized depictions of laboring classes. The prints’ portability and availability made them some of the earliest pieces of art to enter into the Western souvenir trade, and their impact became global. Mining Evergreen Museum & Library’s robust but rarely seen collection of Japanese prints, JHU Museums Curator of Collections Michelle Fitzgerald highlights the artistry and reception of ukiyo-e, as well as their impact on both Western and Japanese artists into the 20th century. The live Q&A is moderated by Amy Mulvihill, Associate Director for Communications and Marketing, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and Univeristy Museums.
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