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Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.

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Snow Country

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This repository holds the code and content for the Fitzwilliam Museum's Snow Country Japanese Prints exhibition: Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.

To run locally

  • Install Jekyll on your machine following these instructions
  • Install Git on your machine following these instructions
  • Clone the code for this repository:
    git clone https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-snow-country.git
  • Install the gems:
    bundle install
  • Change to the directory and then run this command in terminal:
    bundle exec jekyll serve

Credits

Website by @portableant ORCiD.

License

GPL V3 for code, CC-BY-NC-SA-ND for content (text and images) unless stated otherwise.

Contributing guidelines

If you want to contribute fixes to this site, you are very welcome to do so. To do this, either add a bug report under issues or fork the repository and create a new branch for proposed fixes and then submit a pull request.

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Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.

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