Somme Day, Hagiwara Hideo

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Hagiwara Hideo, Somme Day
Hagiwara Hideo, Somme Day
Somme Day
1959, Showa period (1926–1989)
1913–2007
Somme Day, 1959, Showa period (1926–1989)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 435 x 288 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 468 x 328 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 1/8 x 11 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 18 7/16 x 12 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Anonymous gift
Accession number: 1982.0401
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Japan Re-imagined/Post-war Art," Mar-2008, Kris Ercums Abstract printmaking, which was largely banned by the military government during World War II, experienced a rebirth in the 1950s and 60s. This revival signaled a profound shift away from the sentimental realism of shin hanga (new prints)-a continuation of the traditional collaboration between publisher and printmaker-to sosaku hanga (creative print), which emphasized the artist as sole creator of expressionistic works. Patronage of creative prints by American military, which helped boost the post-war art economy, was also perceived as an outgrowth of developmental democracy in Japan.