Hokusai's Landscapes
Hokusai's Landscapes The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialistsThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was…
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Hokusai's Landscapes
The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialistsThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Hokusai's Landscapes focuses exclusively on this pivotal body of the artist's work, the first book to do so. Yet his most famous works--the color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy that lasted from about 1830 to 1836.Hokusai's landscapes revolutionized Japanese printmaking and became icons of world art within a few decades of the artist's death.
Featuring stunning color reproductions of works from the incomparable Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the largest collection