Hokusai

From haunting ghosts to alluring women, or the landscapes of Mount Fuji and the Tōkaidō 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.

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 (The Great Wave) was auctioned for 2.76 million US dollars.

Accompanying texts by Andreas Marks place Hokusai's works in historical context, exploring his influence on Western artists such as Degas and Gauguin.

Specificaties: Hardcover, clothbound, met leeslint, 29 x 39,5 cm, 6,95 kg, 722 pagina's. Meertalige editie (Engels, Frans, Duits). ISBN 978-3-8365-9188-1.