JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS (16801938) XXL

The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disrupti ve ideas in modern art-including, as Karl Marx put it, that all that is solid melts into air-were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.