Gebundenes Buch

Hokusai

beyond the Great Wave

Herausgeber: Clark, Timothy

Beschreibung

An important publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, originally published to accompany the acclaimed retrospective at the British Museum and now available in a compact edition. 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 his 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 the artist 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 a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.

Autor

Timothy Clark FBA is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Until 2019 he was Head of the Japanese section at the Museum. Asano Shugo is Director of The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, Director of the Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, and President of the International Ukiyo-e Society. Roger S. Keyes (1942-2020) was a leading scholar of early modern print culture in Japan, particularly Hokusai. Together with Peter Morse (1935-1992) he created the Catalogue Raisonne of the Surviving Single Sheet Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai. Alfred Haft is JTI Project Curator for Japanese Collections at the British Museum. He is the author of Hiroshige: artist of the open road (2025). Angus Lockyer taught history at SOAS University of London from 2004 to 2019. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Japan: A History in Objects, based on the collection of the British Museum, will be published in 2026. Matsuba Ryoko is Professor of Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures at Ritsumeikan University and will become a new faculty member at the College of Arts and Design and Graduate School of Science in Arts and Design, which expects to welcome its first students in April 2026.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 225mm
• ISBN-13: 9780500481189
• ISBN-10: 0500481180
• Artikelnr.: 74265455