Hokusai

From ghostly spirits to seductive women, or the landscapes of Mount Fuji and the Tōkaidō Road, Hokusai's woodcuts, paintings and book illustrations reveal a masterfully multifaceted career. The coffee table book "Hokusai" offers the most complete profile to date of Japan's foremost artist.

At the age of six, Hokusai is said to have made his first painting, and a year after his death at the age of 89, his designs for illustrated books were published posthumously. This publication follows a long, productive career and covers all of the artist's creative phases: from the actor portraits Hokusai began with to the 1,300 designs he created in his final years under the name Manji.

This monograph includes both well-known and lesser-known, rarely reprinted works of art. The (nearly) complete Hokusai offers an unparalleled variety of subjects and techniques: from a landscape of the Kirifuri waterfall to large-format maps of the Tōkaidō and Kisokaidō roads and the Bōsō Peninsula; spreads of illustrated books, from his sensual, imaginative erotica (shunga) to drawing manuals such as the 15-volume Hokusai manga; and various depictions of animals, from his various series of woodcuts on birds and flowers to his later hanging scroll paintings of ducks amid a flowing stream and a tiger hanging in the snow.

Specifications
Title: Hokusai
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 215 x 140 x 27 mm
Size: 722 pages
Weight: 6.18 kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836591881

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