ARTH 511 - Ukiyo-e:Japanese Prints and Paintings of the "Floating World"

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Davis. Study Japanese woodblock prints from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. For most of the course, we will be concerned with prints from the Edo, or Tokugawa, period (1615-1868) in the style known as "ukiyo-e" ("images of the floating world") and the culture that produced them, but in the final weeks we will also consider the continuation and adaptation of woodblock printing in modern print movements. Study of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and other local collections.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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