{"product_id":"shin-hanga-by-philo-ouweleen-9789493039599","title":"Shin Hanga","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century Japanese printmaking has come in for relatively little attention. Classic Hokusai and Hiroshige landscapes and Utamaro's beautiful images of women remain the dominant form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll the same, since the 1990s museums and private collectors have shown a growing interest in \u003cem\u003eshin hanga\u003c\/em\u003e ('new prints'): balanced designs printed on luxurious paper, with the finest pigments and in smaller editions. They are the fruit of the traditional yet highly successful collaboration between artist, publisher, block-cutter and printer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not so much in their subject matter as their visual language that \u003cem\u003eshin hanga\u003c\/em\u003e prints set themselves apart from their traditional precursors. Where the classically depicted women were stylized and idealized, their more recent counterparts are based on real models, individually recognisable and full of emotion. The modern landscapes, meanwhile, are impressionistic rather than figurative, using a range of colour nuances to achieve highly atmospheric results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShin Hanga\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique selection with which to explore twentieth-century Japanese printmaking. The prints it reproduces are mostly drawn from two large private collections, and, by way of great exception, items from the family collection of the publisher Watanabe, the man who started it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598204027116,"sku":"9789493039599","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/40a66bcbb67f749dc318961c736461d6.jpg?v=1778026722","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/shin-hanga-by-philo-ouweleen-9789493039599","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}