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Hokusai : beyond the great wave / edited by Timothy Clark.

Fine Arts Library NE1325.K3 A4 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist.
Contributor:
Class of 1924 Book Fund.
Clark, Timothy, 1959- editor.
British Museum, host institution.
Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, host institution.
あべのハルカス美術館
葛飾, 北斎(1760-1849)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
Japan.
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Exhibitions.
Katsushika, Hokusai.
Printmakers--Japan--Biography.
Printmakers.
Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.
Color prints, Japanese.
Painting, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.
Painting, Japanese.
Color prints, Japanese--Edo period.
Painting, Japanese--Edo period.
Genre:
Biographies.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogues.
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Other Title:
Beyond the great wave
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, 2017.
Summary:
"An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. His long artistic career is often presented as a chronological sequence. This publication takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of late works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai's life. Hokusai's personal beliefs are contemplated here through analyses of major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. Due attention is also paid to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Ōi), 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."-- Provided by publisher.
"An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. His long artistic career is often presented as a chronological sequence. This publication takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of late works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai's life. Hokusai's personal beliefs are contemplated here through analyses of major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. Due attention is also paid to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Ōi), 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Hokusai : the final years / Roger S. Keyes
Late Hokusai, backwards / Timothy Clark
Hokusai's thought / Angus Lockyer
The power of Hokusai's line / Matsuba Ryōko
Hokusai in old age : his ideas, his way / Asano Shūgō
Hokusai and late Tokugawa society / Alfred Haft
Catalogue. Hokusai from twenty to sixty
Mt Fuji and the Great wave
Worlds seen
Worlds imagined
Hokusai's world
Immortality.
Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Hokusai: beyond the great wave' at the British Museum from 25 May to 13 August 2017 and the exhibition 'Hokusai - Fuji o koete' at Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, from 6 October to 19 November 2017"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-339) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780500094068
0500094063
OCLC:
985653281

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