Hokusai Katsushika
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Language
English
Description
Hokusai, one of Japan's most famous artists, has left a body of work comprising almost 30,000 items. This volume, designed as a catalog to accompany an exhibition in London, gives us an overview of 13 drawings and 151 woodblock prints representing landscapes, amorous couplings, kabuki actors, and scenes of daily life in 18th-century Japan.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
16 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hokusai (1760-1849) was an extraordinarily prolific Japanese master artist and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (Cypictures of the floating world) school. More than 150 years after his death, his legacy remains as important as any Western painters. Hokusai's work inspired a roll-call of great artists including Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Manet, Degas and Klimt as well as craftsmen and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. This book features six meticulously...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator, and print designer throughout his ninety-year life. Yet his most famous works of all--color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy from about 1830 to 1836. These ingenious designs, combining influences from schools of Japanese and Chinese art as well as European...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), this major exhibition explores in detail his impact on other artists, both during his lifetime and beyond. Throughout a career of more than 70 years, Hokusai experimented with a wide range of styles and subjects, producing landscapes such as the instantly recognizable Great Wave and Red Fuji (both about 1830-31), nature studies known as: bird-and-flower pictures,...
