116th Landscape

Honda Kazuhisa, artist

born 1948

116th Landscape, 1979, Showa period (1926–1989)

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: color mezzotint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 220 x 295 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 380 x 500 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 11/16 x 11 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 15/16 x 19 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Gift of Hal M. Davison, Class of 1949

Accession number: 1998.0742

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Japan Re-imagined/Post-war Art," Mar-2008, Kris Ercums
In Japanese, the concept of space and time have been simultaneously expressed by the word MA間...Man’s perception of space has developed as a result of his dividing the environment into areas or spaces. And the manner of this dividing is necessarily related to the view of matter and the cosmos that prevail at any particular time in history... The unique spatial perception of the Japanese has created
a particularized sense of daily life, as well as forms of artistic expression that differ fundamentally from Western civilization…in Japan space and time were never fully separated but conceived as correlative and omnipresent. In a chaotic, mixed condition, space could not be perceived independently of the element of time. Likewise time was not
abstracted as a regulated, homogenous flow, but rather was believed to exist only in relation to movements or spaces.
~ Isozaki Arata 磯崎新 (born 1931),
“Space-Time in Japan—MA,” 1979