Les Cartes Postales
I paid a farewell visit to the MFA today to see if the their Japanese woodblock collection was on display. Alas, the woodblocks were put away, but they had a special exhibit on Japanese Postcards (Leonard Lauder, aka Mr. Estee Lauder, donated 20,000 cards to the museum). When I first walked into the gallery, I was a bit upset because the cards near the door were rather nationalistic and from the WWII era (I couldn’t enjoy what was essentially Japanese propoganda during a very cruel war). Some of the earlier works, however, captured my eye, and made up for the missed woodblock prints. One of my favorites was a card by Takehisa Yumeji, Umbrellas Viewed from Above.
badxmaru
May 8, 2004 @ 7:50 pm
get me some too!
actually, steal me one of them cool bowls
i’m always on the lookout for a cool ramen bowl
echan
May 10, 2004 @ 10:20 pm
Send me your address. I picked up some extra postcards.