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Hokusai by Andreas Marks (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaschen
ISBN-10383659188X
ISBN-139783836591881
eBay Product ID (ePID)25070921295
Product Key Features
Book TitleHokusai
Number of Pages722 Pages
LanguageMultiple Languages
TopicAsian / Japanese, Individual Artists / Monographs, General, History / General
Publication Year2024
GenreArt
AuthorAndreas Marks
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height3.3 in
Item Weight245.6 Oz
Item Length15.5 in
Item Width11.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews[A] sumptuous, beautifully produced art book unfolds Hokusai's 19th-century Edo, the floating world where everything -- mountains, moons and masked actors, courtesans, crustaceans, cherry blossom -- is stylised into patterns of line and colour, yet flutters off the page, restless and vital., He is one of the world's most influential artists of all time. TASCHEN is now dedicating a magnificent volume to Hokusai. Many of the artworks have been newly photographed. We leaf through and marvel. We open up, leaf through some more. The book weighs almost seven kilograms. It is a work of art in itself., You don't just leaf through this book, you linger in it, captivated by the genius of Hokusai, one of the greatest artists not only in Japan. This magnificent volume - an editorial tour de force from TASCHEN - is the perfect place to start getting to know Hokusai. In the face of such an incredibly rich oeuvre, one can only bow down in awe and gratitude., A magnificent book from TASCHEN brings together a huge part of his work. The goal of the editor, Andreas Marks, to question the common image of Hokusai and to replace it with a more differentiated one, is visible on every page of this tremendous monograph., This voluminous book is arguably the most comprehensive study of Hokusai's work to date. It packs an impressive volume of works from the deep well of the Japanese artist and printmaker's long career, far beyond his omnipresent depictions of Mount Fuji., When I am 100 years old, I will have attained a mysterious level, and at 110, every dot and stroke will be alive., At 100 years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at 110, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive. Those of you who live long enough, bear witness that these words of mine are not false., Anyone who opens this magnificent illustrated book and begins to leaf through its pages will be irresistibly drawn into a world so different from our own that not only can you not get enough of it, but you will also want to get lost in it enthusiastically... A superb book full of pictorial inventiveness.
Dewey Decimal709.2
Edition DescriptionMultilanguage edition
SynopsisAt the age of six, Hokusai was said to have painted his first picture, and a year after his death aged 89, his designs for illustrated books were posthumously published. Tracing a long, prolific career, this edition spans each of the artist's creative phases: from the actor portraits with which Hokusai started out to the 1,300 designs carried out in his final years under the name Manji.Reproducing 746 woodblock prints, paintings, sketches, and book illustrations, many of them in granular detail, this volume is comfortably the most complete publication on perhaps Japan's most famous artist. Hokusai's wide appeal as the recognizable figure of Japan's Edo period endures to this day: in March 2023, a version of his iconic woodblock print Under the Wave off Kanagawa (or The Great Wave), from his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, was auctioned for 2.76 million US dollars.Looking far beyond The Great Wave, this monograph features both familiar and lesser known, rarely reprinted artworks. Entitled The (almost) complete Hokusai, it offers an unmatched variety of subjects and techniques: from a landscape of the Kirifuri Waterfall to large-format maps of the Tokaido and Kisokaido roads and the Boso Peninsula; spreads of illustrated books, from his sensual, imaginative erotica (shunga) to drawing manuals such as the fifteen-volume Hokusai manga; and several depictions of animals, from his various woodblock print series on birds and flowers to his later hanging scroll paintings of ducks amidst a flowing stream and a tiger suspended in the snow.The result of an extensive campaign of new photography, this edition has sourced images of artworks from over 100 institutions worldwide. These include museums and collections from Europe and the United States to Japan, such as the Hiei Shrine at Kisarazu, where a surviving panel painting of a boar hunt at the foot of Mount Fuji was rephotographed for this edition.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. Combining rigorous research on the authenticity of Hokusai's art with extra-large reproductions, including four fold-outs, The (almost) complete Hokusai is both a visual carnival of Edo-period Japan and a significant monograph of scholarly reference. Each book is bound either in green or in purple cloth and will be delivered with one of the colours available., From haunting ghosts to alluring women, or the landscapes of Mount Fuji and the Tokaido road: the woodblock prints, paintings, and book illustrations of Hokusai reveal a masterfully versatile career. Packed with new photography and artworks from over 100 institutions worldwide, this is the most complete profile yet of Japan's preeminent artist.
LC Classification NumberN7359.K37A4 2024
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- May 14, 2025
Beautiful and fascinating art book. Hug...
Beautiful and fascinating art book. Huge too. Definitely a coffee table centerpiece.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
