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Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan

Hollis Goodall-Cristante; Kendall H. Brown; Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Synopsis:
The artists of the shin-hanga (new prints) movement in Japan represent one aspect of a search for national identity that preoccupied the Japanese intelligentsia around the turn of the century. While many intellectuals continued to propound the concept of modernization through Westernization, fashionable from early in the Meiji era (1868-1912), shin-hanga artists, as members of the third generation to follow the Meiji restoration and opening of the country to foreign contact, were part of a larger movement of thinkers who sought to redefine the concept of being Japanese.

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Other editions: 2002