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Title:	The Floating World and Beyond: 200 Years of Japanese Prints
Date:	3/22/2025 - 8/24/2025
Address:	Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68102
Location:	Omaha, NE
Hours:	Tuesday – Sunday: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday - Thursday: 10am - 8pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://joslyn.org/exhibitions/the-floating-world-and-beyond ...
Contact Info:	(402) 342-3300

Details:

Featuring works from The Joslyn’s collection, this exhibition explores more than two centuries of prints produced in Japan. From artists like Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, who developed influential styles and techniques during the nineteenth century, to modern practitioners who adapted these traditions, printmaking has long been crucial in shaping the country’s art and culture. Among many techniques, woodblock printing (???, mokuhanga) became prevalent in Japanese art in the seventeenth century. Under the military government of the Tokugawa clan (1603–1868), Japan experienced an era of economic development, urbanization, and cultural flourishing. Prints depicted scenes of everyday life, folk tales, landscapes, flora and fauna, and they featured all spheres of Japanese society. Described as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” these images gained popularity in the nineteenth century in Europe and North America, where artists and collectors purchased, copied, and imitated them.