Hokusai
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Hokusai
Phaidon, 2004, c2003
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 511-512
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 into which Hokusai was born and through which he lived. This is followed by a series of essays, composed by distinguished Western and Japanese scholars, that present new research on a range of crucial areas of interest in Hokusai studies.
These form a context for the core of the book, which embodies a retrospective of Hokusai's entire career, divided into seven chapters. Each chapter provides a succinct account of a phase in Hokusai's life, followed by a series of the finest and most representative works of that period. Great care has been taken throughout to choose for reproduction the best-preserved original prints that reveal Hokusai's mastery of line and colour to full advantage.
This magnificent pictorial survey of Hokusai's prints, paintings and drawings is the first publication in English to make such a rich selection widely available, and to demonstrate the extraordinary range and quality of Hokusai's achievement. The final component of the book is a detailed scholarly commentary on each illustration that provides not only the necessary technical information but also a revealing analysis of style, color, composition and motif.
Table of Contents
- Gian Carlo Calza: 'The Universal Hokusai'
- Roger S. Keyes: 'The Young Hokusai'
- Matthi Forrer: 'Western Influences on Hokusai's Art'
- John M. Rosenfield: ' "The maker is Master": Hokusai the Individualist in his Two Handbooks on Painting'
- Richard Lane: 'Sorrows of Love Overcome: the Erotic Art of Hokusai'
- Asano Shugo: 'Art and the Literary Circles of Surimono: the Genroku kasen kai awase and Umazukushi series'
- Tsuji Nobuo: 'In a World of Fantasy: the Late Works of Hokusai'
- Tadashi Kobayashi: 'Hokusai's Letters'
- I In the Sign of the Dragon: the Shunro Period
- II Individualism and Autonomy: the Sori Period
- III Maturity: the Hokusai Period
- IV Handbooks, Handbooks, Handbooks: the Taito Period
- V The Landscape Revolution: the Iitsu Period
- VI Beyond the Impossible: the Manji Period
- VII Beyond the Limits of the Western Sea: Hokusai and Japonisme
- List of Works
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
by "Nielsen BookData"