Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation 1945-1952 Onchi Koshiro, Ernst Hacker And the First Thursday Society

In 1945 much of urban Japan lay in ruins, the land occupied by foreign powers. This book examines in detail how one school of printmakers, under the leadership of Onchi Koshiro, survived the Pacific War & as artists found themselves among those calling for a new search for the nation's heart in its aesthetic traditions. They also received unexpected appreciation form connoisseurs among the occupying forces & admin's. Symbolic of this process was the meeting of the Amer. graphic artist Ernst Hacker with Onchi & his circle & with Munakata Shiko. By 1952, when the Allied Occup'n. ended, work by Onchi & his circle & by Munakata was eagerly collected in the U.S. These two are now recognized as Japan's greatest print artists of the 20th cent. Illustrated.Smith, Lawrence is the author of 'Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation 1945-1952 Onchi Koshiro, Ernst Hacker And the First Thursday Society', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756785277 and ISBN 0756785278.