Hiroshige: The Master of Nature Hiroshige
Hiroshige: The Master of Nature Hiroshige A comprehensive monograph on Hiroshige, the last great master of the ukiyo-e style, with more than 400 reproductionsThis substantial volume offers a broad…
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Hiroshige: The Master of Nature Hiroshige
A comprehensive monograph on Hiroshige, the last great master of the ukiyo-e style, with more than 400 reproductionsThis substantial volume offers a broad panorama of the hugely popular oeuvre of Hiroshige (1797-1858), the great artist of the Japanese popular school of printmaking who transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. Ukiyo-e publishing was not a cultural institution subsidized by public funds, but rather a commercial business. The text examines his life and achievements, and elucidates the special qualities that made his prints so popular in 19th-century Japan and Europe.Alongside Hokusai, Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the 19th century, capturing the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape as well varied moods of memorable places at different times.
During his lifetime,