Zoom – Chelsea Foxwell and Brooklyn Zhao on Fact and Fiction: Picturing the News in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of Anthony J. Mourek

May Evening Program

Japanese color prints and woodblock-printed books are beloved as works of art and literature. Less attention has been paid to those woodblock-printed images of the Meiji era (1868–1912) which purported to depict the news, especially events of the First Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) Wars. This presentation draws on works from the Anthony J. Mourek Collection now in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago to understand how this traditional medium combined fact and fiction to express Japan’s new identity as a modern nation.

Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago.

Brooklyn Zhao, Undergraduate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

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