Thiago Carvalho on Nostr: 'An entire set of Hiroshige’s colorful depictions of his native city was bound into ...
'An entire set of Hiroshige’s colorful depictions of his native city was bound into a book, donated to the Brooklyn Museum and left in storage for 40 years before being unbound in the 1970s. Because it was probably intended especially for such a collection, this particular set was also a kind of luxury edition, made with extra care and details, like the use of reflective metallic dust, that ordinary consumer-grade prints, for all their intricacy, didn’t have.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/arts/design/hiroshige-art-brooklyn-museum-woodblock.htmlPublished at
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