Virtual Access Day At FAMSF with Audio Description (online)
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) will have a Virtual Access Day for Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World on Monday July 29. A descriptive docent presentation takes places at 11:30 am. (There is also a general audience tour that goes into the history of the prints at 10:00 am)
Register for the FAMSF Japanese Prints highly descriptive tour.
Get more information on the FAMSF Japanese Prints virtual tours or email accessday@famsf.org.
About the exhibition
In 1868 Japan’s shogun was overthrown, marking the end of feudal military rule and ushering in the Meiji era (1868–1912), a period of modernization and exchange with other nations. As Japan’s society shifted, so too did its print culture. The delicately colored ukiyo-e (floating world woodblock prints) of actors, courtesans, and scenic views that had flourished for over a century were replaced with brightly colored images of Western architecture, technology, Victorian fashions and customs, and modern military warfare. This two-part exhibition (the floating world and the modern world) highlights this stylistic transition and the work of one artist, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, who successfully spanned them both. His distinctive, sometimes eccentric, images serve as a link between the two eras.