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Frederick W. Gookin (1853-1936) and His Roles in the Western Receptions of Japanese Woodblock Prints

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2016年4月 1日(金)

代表者: Professor and Chair, University of Zurich, Section of East Asian Art Hans Bjarne Thomsen

  Frederick W. Gookin was a tremendously influential scholar, curator, and consultant on Japanese woodblock prints. There are traces of his writings and activities in a large number of archives and public institutions. He was one of the earliest promoters of prints, and together with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (a close collaborator of Gookin) helped to form and direct many of the leading collections of the early 20th century. He was, for example, a leading voice in the collection of Clarance and Kate Buckingham and and the Spaulding Brothers (now in the Chicago Art Institute and the Boston MFA, respectively). His network of contacts spread across the world, there exists, for example, a collection of his correspondence with the kabuki scholar Ihara Toshiro, the author of Kabuki nenpyo. He was a born letter writer and educator and his letters are very informative and tell much about the state of woodblock print studies and research in the beginning of the 20th century. In short, he was important in the exhibition, the collection, dealing, and the conservation of Japanese prints, and helped to educate entire generations of collector and museum professionals.

 The project aims to gather the letters and unpublished materials left by Gookin and his correspondents and to gather them into a database and webpage innorder to fascilitate undersrtanding and future research on this key figure in the Western reception of Japanese woodblock prints.