HOKUSAI: THE MAN MAD-ON-DRAWING WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE HLOUCHA AND 48 COLOURED WOODCUTS REPRODUCED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY W. FORMAN.
Prague, Czech. Artia, Undated. Third Edition. String-bound. Large octavo, 10 in. x 8 in., pp. 115. Illustrated with forty-eight color illustrations and several black and white illustrations. Printed and sewn in the Japanese style, string-bound on double-fold paper. Protected in a trifold hardback red slipcase of red cloth stamped with gilt image of Hokusai and a Mt. Fuji image, with two faux-ivory closure darts. Light sunning to spine. Edgewear and discoloration along edge to cardboard slipcase; light scuffing to one corner of slipcase. Very Good Plus / Good Plus (slipcase). Item #88768
Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
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