Travelling Prints: Ukiyo-e, Sosaku Hanga, and the Inuit Print Practice

Saturday, October 22, 2pm
Admission by donation

Owl, Fox and Hare Legend, 1959, Osuitok Ipeelee, Printed by the artist, with James Houston, Stencil, CMC, CD 1959-021 SS © IMG2010-0207-0037-Dm Photo: Marie-Louise Deruaz

The talk will provide the historical background of both Japanese and Inuit prints. Focusing on how Canadian artist James Houston’s trip to Japan in the 1950s has informed the Inuit print practice in the Arctic, it will situate the Inuit-Japan exchange in the long, transnational history of Japanese woodblock prints.

Asato Ikeda is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation examines Japanese paintings during the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945) and the question of Japanese fascism. With Ming Tiampo and Aya Louisa McDonald, she is co-editing an anthology on Japanese war art, which will be the first anthology on the subject in English (forthcoming from Brill Academic Publishers in 2012).