cop: the department of asian art

Department of Asian Art. “Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/edop/hd_edop.htm (October 2003)

-Department of Asian Art. “Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/plea/hd_plea.htm (October 2004)

Department of Asian Art. “Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm (October 2003)

The Department of Asian Art is a webpage that I found when researching about Japanese Woodblock art. They are really helpful and have a few webpages about the topic that I am looking at. It's from the Metropolitan Museum so I know that it is a reliable source. Some of the quotes that I picked up from these websites are:

‘each print required the collaboration of four experts: the designer, the engraver, the printer, and the publisher’

'By the late 1630s, contact with the outside world was cut off through official prohibition of foreigners'

'Ukiyo-e represents the final phase in the long evolution of Japanese genre painting. Drawing on earlier developments that had focused on human figures, ukiyo-e painters focused on enjoyable activities in landscape settings, shown close-up, with special attention to contemporary affairs and fashions. '