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Hokusai

Hokusai

Prestel USA

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This expansive, authoritative and deluxe monograph offers a wide-ranging examination of one of Japan's most celebrated artists.
In Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, Hokusai created an iconic work that includes universally recognized and beloved images of the Japanese landscape. The same broad perspective and attention to detail is brought to bear in this monumental book that follows the full spectrum of Hokusai's life and work. From his first prints to his most accomplished productions, including drawings and paintings, each stage of Hokusai's artistic development is presented within the context of Japanese cultural history. In addition to placing him among contemporaries from his native country, the book discusses the profound influence Hokusai had on European artists, particularly the Impressionists. Matthi Forrer, one of the world's leading authorities on the artist, vibrantly interweaves brilliant reproductions from every period of Hokusai's life with fascinating commentary. Presented in a luxurious large-format edition, the book offers a comprehensive perspective combined with the latest scholarly findings.
Hokusai's Mount Fuji: The Complete Views in Color

Harry N. Abrams

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This complete collection of Hokusai’s famous views of Mount Fuji is the only high-quality reproduction of these engravings, long considered the Japanese master’s greatest works. Taken from the best engravings available and shown in splendid color, this authoritative volume is the first of its kind since 1830. Hokusai’s influence extended far beyond Japan, even to French Impressionists including Degas, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Each illustration is accopmanied by detailed notes placing the work in its cultural and historical context and exploring the symbolic themes running through Hokusai’s landscapes.
Hokusai

Phaidon Press

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Katsushika Hokusai (1769-1849) was one of the greatest of the Japanese print designers, painters and book illustrators, and by far the most famous Asian artist in the West. This richly illustrated monograph provides an overview of the master's life and works in all media. Comprising introductory essays, seven chapters embracing Hokusai's entire career and some 700 illustrations, it presents and analyses a large selection of Hokusai's finest works in all media, covering his whole career and giving a scholarly and up-to-date interpretation of the artist and his significance. This big and beautiful book presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan's greatest and most influential artists, together with a collection of essays that focus on a key aspects of the master's career. The book opens with an introductory essay by Gian Carlo Calza presenting an overview of the changing world Hokusai was born into and lived through. This is followed by a series of essays by distinguished Western and Japanese scholars that present new research on a range of crucial areas of interest in Hokusai studies. These provide a context for the core of the book, which forms a retrospective of H
Hokusai Manga (English and Japanese Edition)

PIE International

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The legendary masterpieces of Hokusai-fifteen volumes in a single chunky book. Hokusai Manga is one of the masterpieces by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a master of Ukiyo-e art, depicting ordinary people’s lives, animals, plants, landscapes and human figures, historical and supernatural, even demons and monsters, as if it were a visual encyclopedia, amounting to fifteen volumes. Hokusai Manga turned out to be very popular among every class of people, from feudal lords to the general public, and became a long time best-seller in the Edo period. This book selects pieces from each volume and compiles them into one charming book.
The original masterpiece spread throughout Japan and flowed into Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century, where it had a striking impact on artists, including Impressionists Manet, Monet, Degas, and others. The artistic movement ‘Japonisme’ began in part due to its influence.
Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds

Prestel Publishing

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Now available again, this delightful selection of prints depicting nineteenth century Japan's natural beauty is a colorful introduction to the country's most beloved artist. The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and painting with tremendous energy nearly everything he saw, and this book focuses on one of his most productive periods, when the artist was in his seventies. This book presents fifty works of the artist's astonishing oeuvre. It includes selections from his renowned series of woodblock prints, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, including "In the Hollow of a Wave," "Shower below the Summit," and "South Wind at Clear Dawn." Also presented are images of flowers, waterfalls, bridges, birds, and fish, demonstrating the uniquely precise yet passionate quality of Hokusai's art. An expert on the artist's work, Matthi Forrer provides illuminating commentary on Hokusai's life and technique, offering insight into his enduring
popularity throughout the world.
Hokusai: Prints and Drawings

Prestel Pub

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This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Japan's most beloved artist. These landscapes-including his famous views of Mount Fuji- portraits of lovers and kabuki actors, nature and animal illustrations, as well as scenes of daily life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan reveal the artist's genius for rendering a wide variety of subjects. Matthi Forrer discusses in his essay Hokusai's life and lasting popularity while placing his work within the context of Japanese society and the work of his contemporaries.

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Tom Killion: In the arms of Mount Tam - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - May 19, 2009
Tom Killion: In the arms of Mount TamIn particular, he was fascinated by "100 Views of Mt. Fuji" by the Japanese artist Hokusai. "I began looking at the mountain as Hokusai did with Fuji," Killion said. In his early teens, he began to compile the work, which he collected in 1975 into his

Mystery with a Japanese flavour - The Province
The Province, Canada - May 14, 2009
Mystery with a Japanese flavourThe great Japanese artist Hokusai's famous series of woodcut prints of Mount Fuji numbers 36. Each one is of the legendary mountain from a different vantage point. Some even from the peak itself, looking down upon the surrounding countryside.

Sketching people viewing Kuniyoshi - Özel Web Tasarım
Özel Web Tasarım, Turkey - May 10, 2009
Sketching people viewing KuniyoshiKuniyoshi was a major master of the 'floating world', or Ukiyo-e school of Japanese art, and, together with Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864), dominated nineteenth century printmaking in

Woodcut artist Tom Killion celebrates Mt. Tamalpais - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - May 14, 2009
Woodcut artist Tom Killion celebrates Mt. TamalpaisBy age 15, he'd produced his first Hokusai-like linocut of Mt. Tam. With the mountain part of his very DNA, Killion was nevertheless surprised by some of the history he uncovered "" for example, the Sleeping Lady folk legend that white Americans

Warm Brahms on a cold afternoon
Examiner.com - May 25, 2009
Warm Brahms on a cold afternoon The final movement, entitled "FESTIVAL" and coupled with the concept of joy, honors Katsushika Hokusai, whose "Great Wave off Kanagawa" in his Thirty-six View of Mount Fuji series is said to have inspired the composition of Claude Debussy's La Mer.