Hokusai
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Few artists have left as indelible a mark on the world's visual imagination as Katsushika Hokusai, the Japanese ukiyo-e master whose work bridges the ancient and the modern with breathtaking fluency. This authoritative volume, published by the renowned Phaidon Press, presents a comprehensive survey of Hokusai's extraordinary output — from the iconic sweeping wave of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji to the intimate, vibrant sketches of his Manga — chronicling seven decades of relentless artistic evolution. Phaidon's signature scholarly rigour underpins the text, illuminating Hokusai's profound influence on Western Impressionism and the broader art historical canon, while his obsessive devotion to craft — working productively well into his eighties — remains one of the great stories of creative endurance. With its wealth of reproductions and incisive commentary, this is an essential volume for anyone drawn to the art of a man who once declared he would only truly learn to draw at the age of one hundred.
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Phaidon Press
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Few artists have left as indelible a mark on the world's visual imagination as Katsushika Hokusai, the Japanese ukiyo-e master whose work bridges the ancient and the modern with breathtaking fluency. This authoritative volume, published by the renowned Phaidon Press, presents a comprehensive survey of Hokusai's extraordinary output — from the iconic sweeping wave of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji to the intimate, vibrant sketches of his Manga — chronicling seven decades of relentless artistic evolution. Phaidon's signature scholarly rigour underpins the text, illuminating Hokusai's profound influence on Western Impressionism and the broader art historical canon, while his obsessive devotion to craft — working productively well into his eighties — remains one of the great stories of creative endurance. With its wealth of reproductions and incisive commentary, this is an essential volume for anyone drawn to the art of a man who once declared he would only truly learn to draw at the age of one hundred.