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Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds
Matthi Forrer
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Description for Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds
Paperback. Now available again, this delightful selection of prints depicting nineteenth century Japan's natural beauty is a colourful introduction to the country's most beloved artist. Num Pages: 96 pages, 50 colour. BIC Classification: ACBP; ACV; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 193 x 10. Weight in Grams: 450.
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,A" Shower below the Summit,A" and South Wind at Clear Dawn.A" Also presented are images of flowers, waterfalls, bridges, birds, and fish, demonstrating the uniquely precise yet ... Read more
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,A" Shower below the Summit,A" and South Wind at Clear Dawn.A" Also presented are images of flowers, waterfalls, bridges, birds, and fish, demonstrating the uniquely precise yet ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791346144
SKU
V9783791346144
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Matthi Forrer
MATTHI FORRER is Curator of Japanese Art at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, and Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His books include Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings and Hokusai: Prints and Drawings (Prestel).
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