Hokusai (XXL Volume)
£175.00
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This weighty volume is comfortably the most complete publication on perhaps Japan’s most famous artist, Hokusai Maximus, sourcing images of artworks from over 100 institutions worldwide. Looking far beyond ‘The Great Wave’, this monograph features 746 woodblock prints, paintings, sketches, and book illustrations, many of them in granular detail, including both familiar and lesser known, rarely reprinted artworks. Accompanying texts by Andreas Marks place Hokusai’s works in historical context, exploring his influence on Western artists such as Degas and Gauguin despite never leaving Japan himself.
Dimensions
39.5cm (1ft 3in) x 29cm (11in)
Features
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This weighty volume is comfortably the most complete publication on perhaps Japan’s most famous artist, Hokusai Maximus, sourcing images of artworks from over 100 institutions worldwide. Looking far beyond ‘The Great Wave’, this monograph features 746 woodblock prints, paintings, sketches, and book illustrations, many of them in granular detail, including both familiar and lesser known, rarely reprinted artworks. Accompanying texts by Andreas Marks place Hokusai’s works in historical context, exploring his influence on Western artists such as Degas and Gauguin despite never leaving Japan himself.
Insights
Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history at the University of Bonn and obtained his PhD in Japanology from Leiden University with a thesis on 19th-century actor prints. From 2008 to 2013 he was director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art in Hanford, California, and since 2013 has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Details & Care
- Publisher: TASCHEN
- Purple cloth bound hard cover
- Colour photography
- Number of pages: 722 pages
- ISBN: 9783836591881
- Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
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