Format:
352 Seiten
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29 cm
ISBN:
0500292809
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0500094063
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9780500292808
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9780500094068
Content:
Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai's life. Hokusai's personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. The book gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Oi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, myth, and history. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai, and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career
Note:
Contributors: Timothy Clarl, Asano Shūgō, Roger S. Keyes, Alfred Haft, Angus Lockyer, Matsubara Ryōko
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"The publication accompanies the exhibition 'Hokusai : beyond the great wave' at the British Museum from 23 May to 13 August 2017 and the exhibition 'Hokusai - Fuji o koete' at Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, from 6 October to 119 November 2017"-- verso of title page
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Katsushika, Hokusai 1760-1849
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Bildband
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Katsushika, Hokusai 1760-1849
Author information:
Clark, Timothy J. 1943-
Author information:
Asano, Shūgō 1950-
Author information:
Clark, Timothy 1959-
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