Hokusai
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878468250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Amazon Customer said Accessible, inclusive, diverse in its compass.. An accessible, extensively illustrated and clearly written introduction to the works of Japans best known artist. This volume emphasises the sheer scale and breadth of compass of Hokusai's creative activities. Readers can gain insights into the diverse preoccupations of an astonishingly active creative mind.. Beautiful book Engaged observer This is a beautiful book, great explanations about the work. I love that it's a MFA original.. Book Cover Glued on Backward The beautiful book jacket was mistakingly glued onto the book backwards, so that when a reader opens the book to begin reading, it is actually the last page (and upside-down). The book jacket cannot be removed without damaging the book. Too bad.
This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. Including some 50 stunning and unusual paintings, prints and drawings from the peerless Hokusai collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book is a treasure trove that introduces readers to a witty, wide-ranging and inimitably ingenious Hokusai.Known by at least 30 other names during his lifetime, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was an ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Katsushika Hokusai remains one of Japan's most popular and influential artists. In 1800, he published his two classic collections of landscapes, Famous Sights of the Eastern Capital and Eight Views of Edo. His influence extended to his Western contemporaries in nineteenth-century Europe, including Degas, Gauguin,