The catalogue of the “Dream Worlds” exhibition comprises a selection of Japanese prints, masterpieces from the famous Robert O. Muller Collection donated to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., after the collector’s death in 2003. The author of the texts James T. Ulak is deputy-director at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and an author of many works on Japanese art. He has also curated the “Dream Worlds” exhibition, and his text he deals with the ways in which the expressive qualities and functions of traditional Japanese woodblock prints adapted to the challenges posed by modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The catalogue shows many outstanding works by artists of the Shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement divided by themes: stage presence, beauty personified, the quality of light, and creatures real and imagined and includes a glossary and specialised bibliography.