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Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
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Hokusai: A Life in Drawings

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was the most prolific and diverse artist of Japan’s Edo period, with a body of work reputed to include more than 30,000 drawings, paintings and prints. This book traces the career of this child from a working-class district of old Tokyo, then known as Edo, evoking the special atmosphere of this great city and of Japanese life, when Japan – closed to foreigners – developed in a vacuum a powerfully original culture. Its urban centres enjoyed increasing wealth and stability, leading to a flourishing culture of art and pleasure-seeking. Woodblock prints of the genre known as ukiyo-e – ‘images of the floating world’ – became defining images of the age.

Hokusai became one of the great masters of the woodcut, this ‘brush gone wild’, as he called himself, being rediscovered by the Impressionists and aesthetes at the end of the nineteenth century. His works range from portraits of popular actors and courtesans to landscapes and seascapes, including his celebrated 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji', and from cleverly observed scenes of everyday life to the erotic prints known as shunga. While his prints had a huge influence on the course of Western art, it is equally true that he himself was influenced by European painting, embracing techniques such as perspective and adapting them to suit Japanese tastes. He remains one of the greatest and – thanks to his personality – one of the most attractive figures of world art.

Title: Hokusai: A Life in Drawings
Binding: Hardcover  with printed cloth (without jacket)
Language: English 
Page-total: 224
Size: 160 x 226 mm

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Donalda McComb
A must for Hokusai fans!

Beautiful looking book with a tactile, silky cover. The double page design is unusual and unique. Very detailed information on the artist and the selection of prints are organised into themes, providing a snapshot of his work.

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Robert Kulesh

Hokusai: A Life in Drawings

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Barbara Quale
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I’ve always loved Hokusai’s art! !!!

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Samuel Wright
Stunning book

Beautiful satin cover. Pages are all double folded so only one side is printed on yet there arent blank pages, never seen that before, super cool. Wonderful photo reference and great text. A fantastic addition to the home library.

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Steve Armstrong
Hokusai: A Life in Drawings

I love my copy of Hokusai: A Life in Drawings. It is everything I wanted at a reasonable price. Anyone who is familiar with his work should be delighted to own this masterpiece! Kudos to Kintaro Publishing!

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