Descrizione
Barrie & Jenkins ; 1989; 9780712625067; Rilegato con titoli in oro al dorso, sovracoperta ; 31,5 x 25 cm; pp. 320; A cura di Richard Lane. Volume in inglese, con 93 ill. col. e 270 b./n..; Presenta leggeri segni d’uso ai bordi (piccole imperfezioni), interno senza scritte; Buono, (come da foto). ; Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japanese artist and print-maker, is now recognized as one of the great masters of the ukiyo-e print, illustration, sketch and painting – the ‘Pictures of the Floating World’ which treated in a forceful expressionist manner commonplace subjects of the everyday world. For the last hundred years Hokusai has impressed artists, critics and art-lovers of the West – more, possibly, than any other Asian artist. In 1797, after long study with various masters and schools, the artist adopted the nom de plume that was to become his trademark – Hokusai, meaning ‘Northern Studio’. During this period he produced striking portraits of women, stylish love scenes, surimono greeting-prints and his finest coloured book illustrations. He next turned to the picture-book: in his Manga sketchbooks, on which he worked mainly from 1814 to 1819, he depicted all facets of Japanese life. His greatest achievement, however, apart from the rare figure prints and drawings of his middle years, came in the Fuji landscapes of around 1830. In the Thirty-Six Views of Fuji, the sacred mountain was seen from every conceivable angle and distance, in all seasons and moods, a revelation entirely new to ukiyo-e. In the 1830s, he again surpassed himself with his three-volume picture-book, One Hundred Views of Fuji, the work that was to have the greatest influence on European art. This book is the first ever detailed monograph on Hokusai. It includes a unique feature of major value to scholars and collectors: a full appendix cataloguing all the prints and books, with many illustrations of the more important series. The appendix also lists Hokusai’s signatures and noms d’artiste, as well as his pupils and followers, and contains a comprehensive bibliography. In any assessment of Hokusai’s genius, the sheer volume of his oeuvre cannot be ignored: he produced over 30,000 designs. The difficult task of the critic is to provide the discrimination needed for a full analysis of this achievement. With his wealth of scholarship and a lifetime of knowledge of the period and the artist, Richard Lane provides the perfect guide to a critical understanding of this prolific and universally loved Japanese print artist. With 93 colour and 270 black and white illustrations plus 242 appendix illustrations ; L’immagine se disponibile, corrisponde alla copia in vendita.
