Hokusai : beyond the great wave / edited by Timothy Clark.
2017
NE1325.K3 A4 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Hokusai : beyond the great wave / edited by Timothy Clark.
ISBN
9780500094068 (hardcover)
0500094063 (hardcover)
9780500292808
0500292809
0500094063 (hardcover)
9780500292808
0500292809
Published
London : Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, [2017]
Language
English
Description
352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Call Number
NE1325.K3 A4 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.5
Summary
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 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. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai, and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.
Note
"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"-- verso of title page.
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 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. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai, and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.
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 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. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai, and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Clark, Timothy, 1959- editor.
Added Corporate Author
British Museum, host institution.
Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, host institution.
Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, host institution.
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Table of 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.
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.