Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500094063 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum.
The publication gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai’s daughter Eijo (Oi), also an accomplished artist. Hokusai’s personal beliefs are contemplated here through analyses of major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints, and illustrated books. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. 286 illustrations. This publication, which will coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, 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 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 encyclopedic knowledge of nature, myth, and history.Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum.