Japanese Woodblock Prints 1680-1980 Publisher / becker&mayer! Flowers and trees assume the

Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance

including a gardener

this volume covers all areas of the artist’s practice

brought to life with evocative illustrations

Japanese Woodblock Prints 1680-1980 Publisher / becker&mayer! Flowers and trees assume theA major new survey of an internationally significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints. This wide ranging volume brings together over seventy five significant woodblock prints from the collection of Worcester Art Museum, MA, spanning three hundred years, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. Organized chronologically, it begins with rare, and in some cases unique, examples of Edo period (16031868) woodblock ukiyo e prints, many of