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Itō Motoyuki
The Ear Festival1971

Not on view
Accordion-folded printed booklet standing open to show four white panels with black ink illustrations and Japanese text, the front panel reading 'the ear festival'
Accordion-fold artist's book, open and standing, with white pages. Front panel features black printed illustrations of a woolly mammoth, a sarcophagus, and small abstract shapes, alongside three Japanese characters and Latin text. Interior panels display repeating black zigzag and wavy line patterns.
Artist's book opened flat, showing two white pages; left page scattered with small typographic marks arranged in a loose diagonal cluster, with two Chinese characters at lower center; right page filled with dense horizontal rows of repeating wave-like marks forming a textured grid pattern, with a patterned spine visible at far right.
Artist or Maker
Itō Motoyuki
Title
The Ear Festival
Date Made
1971
Period
Shōwa period (1926-1989)
Medium
Engraved printing on paper, boards
Dimensions
Book: 6 1/2 x 4 x 1/4 in. (16.51 x 10.16 x .635 cm); 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (16.51 x 10.4775 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. John Solt
Accession Number
M.2008.237.8
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Exhibition History
  • Japanese Prints: Word/Poem/Picture. September 13, 2007 - February 9, 2008

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