This profusely illustrated volume, which collects essays by a distinguished roster of specialists in Japanese art, presents a wide range of current scholarship on the Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles. Achieving worldwide renown for his dramatic landscape print series such as the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica, and privately commissioned woodcuts called surimono. Less well known, Hokusai was a highly accomplished ...
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This profusely illustrated volume, which collects essays by a distinguished roster of specialists in Japanese art, presents a wide range of current scholarship on the Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles. Achieving worldwide renown for his dramatic landscape print series such as the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica, and privately commissioned woodcuts called surimono. Less well known, Hokusai was a highly accomplished and prolific painter who produced not only pictures of courtesans of the pleasure quarters, the normal stock-in-trade of an ukiyo-e artist, but a prodigious output on historical and legendary themes. This volume provides new insights into all these diverse aspects of the polyvalent artist's corpus.
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Good+/VG-(scuffs & scratches to cloth. textblock has deep split at pgs 272/273; binding thread visible, but glue & joints holding. dustjacket has white label residue to upper front edge; edge-wear; creasing to edges) Navy cloth boards w/ silver stamped printing. 357 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. pictorial & brown dustjacket. "This profusely illustrated volume, which collects essays by a distinguished roster of specialists in Japanese art, presents a wide range of current scholarship on the Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles." "Achieving worldwide renown for his dramatic landscape print series such as the Thirty-Six Views of Mouni Fuji, Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica and privately commissioned woodcuts called surimono. Less well known, Hokusai was a highly accomplished and prolific painter who produced not only pictures of courtesans of the pleasure quarters, the normal stock-in-trade of an ukiyo-e artist, but also a prodigious output based on historical and legendary themes. This volume provides new insights into all these diverse aspects of the polyvalent artist's corpus."--Jacket/WorldCat.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 10x1x12; The book is like new. The dust jacket has some very light wrinkles at the spine ends. Hotei Publishing, 2005. Hardcover No Stated Edition. The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket condition is Near Fine.
