Dreams & diversions

Andreas Marks

This collection of essays presents stories and histories drawn from The San Diego Museum of Art's previously unpublished holdings of more than one thousand Japanese woodblock prints. The international team of authors underscores the special and longstanding connections between the port city of San Diego, its collectors, and the nation of Japan. The essays not only advance the field with new discoveries recent research, and discussions of rare prints but also engage general readers interested in Japanese art and culture of the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. Unfolding with a history of the transnational experiences of Japanese people in San Diego and the ownership histories of a core group of prints that can be traced to the collections of a reclusive Midwestern philanthropist and a turn-of-the-century English aristocrat, this volume reveals how both Japanese people and...