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Join us for the 45th season of the Treasure Coast’s most celebrated arts and humanities lecture series. This lecture series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print'. The featured speakers will provide audiences with multiple perspectives to contextualize the exhibition’s themes.Patrons are invited to attend the lectures at the VBMA or stream them from the comfort of their homes.
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Monday, January 11, 2027 at 4:30pm | Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Behind the Scenes of a Celebrated Japanese Woodblock Print Series
Andreas Marks, PhD, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Some of Utagawa Hiroshige’s designs in his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo are amongst the best-known woodblock prints and have been cherished since their inception in the 1850s. Hiroshige captured 118 different scenes in the metropolis of Edo, today’s Tokyo. Precious deluxe versions were printed, incorporating many special printing features like color gradation. During the course of production, significant changes were made to some of them. Focusing on the One Hundred Views, this talk will look into the complexity and mechanics of the popular print market in Japan in the 19th century.
Dr. Andreas Marks received his PhD from Leiden University with a dissertation on 19th-century actor prints. Since 2013, he has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. His research has earned the International Ukiyo-e Society Award and the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s top book award twice (2018 and 2022). In 2024, he received a commendation from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contributions to promoting Japanese culture. He is the author of almost 30 books, including The (almost) complete Hokusai and Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings.
Additional 2027 ILS Speakers:
Monday, February 1, 2027 at 4:30pm | The World Within the Image
Pico Iyer, Best-selling Author, Journalist, and Travel Writer
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