Awash in color : French and Japanese prints / Chelsea Foxwell and Anne Leonard ; with David Acton [and others].

Chicago : Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, [2012], ©2012.

191 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Oct. 4, 2012 - Jan. 20, 2013.

The social landscape of color printmaking: Japan and beyond / Chelsea Foxwell -- Crypto/chromo: color and the reproduction of images / Anne Leonard -- The virtuoso printmakers of eighteenth-century France / David Acton -- The development of color printing in Japan: some early single-sheet prints -- David Waterhouse -- Working at the edge: Japanese elision and Western printmakers / Drew Stevens -- The decadent Japanese woodblock print: application and preservation of color in the mid-nineteenth century / Andreas Marks -- Color in the age of mechanical reproduction: chromolithography in nineteenth-century France / Laura Kalba -- The color woodblock print: some thoughts on translation / Anne Leonard -- Classicizing the creative print: Yamamoto Kanae in France / Stephanie Su.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187).