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The Woodblock and the artist : the life and work of Shiko Munakata /

By: Munakata, Shikō, 1903-1975 [artist]
Language: English Publisher: London : South Bank Centre ; Tokyo : Japan Folk Crafts Museum ; Kodansha International, 1991Description: 147 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1853320714Subject(s): Munakata, Shiko, 1903-1975 -- Exhibitions | Prints, Japanese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Printmakers -- Japan -- BiographyDDC classification: 769.952
Contents:
The divine printmaker / Sōri Yanagi -- Shikō Munakata / Oliver Statler -- Munakata as a printmaker / Pat Gilmour -- Shikō Munakata / Sōetsu Yanagi -- Munakata and his work / Kanjirō Kawai -- Learning from Munakata / Shōji Hamada -- Self-reflections : essays / Munakata

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Shikō Munakata: master of the Wood-block" -- t.p. verso.

Exhibitions held at Hayward Gallery, London, October 10-November 24, 1991; at Mead Gallery, Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, December 7, 1991-January 26, 1992; and at Ulster Museum, Belfast, February 1-March 14, 1992.

The divine printmaker / Sōri Yanagi -- Shikō Munakata / Oliver Statler -- Munakata as a printmaker / Pat Gilmour -- Shikō Munakata / Sōetsu Yanagi -- Munakata and his work / Kanjirō Kawai -- Learning from Munakata / Shōji Hamada -- Self-reflections : essays / Munakata