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Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
Timothy Clark
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Description for Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 250. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500094068
SKU
V9780500094068
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99-2
About Timothy Clark
Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Roger Keyes is a leading Hokusai scholar.
Reviews for Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
'The most important publication for years on Hokusai ... a uniquely valuable overview of the artists' late career' - Asian Art Newspaper