Hokusai
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878468250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Book Cover Glued on Backward" according to Amazon Customer. The beautiful book jacket was mistakingly glued onto the book backwards, so that when a reader opens the book to begin reading, it is actually the last page (and upside-down). The book jacket cannot be removed without damaging the book. Too bad.. Watch out for "The Great Wave"! Katsushika Hokusai is one of the great geniuses of Japanese, and for that matter, world, art. Whether creating brilliant wood block prints--brilliant in the sense of composition, not necessarily color--or paintings, this unusually long-lived, for his era, late 19th century painter created unforgettable works of art, the most recognizable of which, "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" attracts world-wide art lovers. This is the catalogue for the currentexh. Beautiful book This is a beautiful book, great explanations about the work. I love that it's a MFA original.
In 1800, he published his two classic collections of landscapes, Famous Sights of the Eastern Capital and Eight Views of Edo. Including some 50 stunning and unusual paintings, prints and drawings from the peerless Hokusai collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book is a treasure trove that introduces readers to a witty, wide-ranging and inimitably ingenious Hokusai.Known by at least 30 other names during his lifetime, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was an ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It explores the question of how the self-styled "Man Mad about Drawing" approached his subjectshow he depicted human bodies in motion, combined figures and landscapes, represented three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces and when he used the techniques o