Hokusai: A Life in Drawing Thames & Hudson (370074951)

В роскошном, большом формате исполнения этого приятного иллюстрированного ввода в Кацушику Хокусай, most известнейший артист из Japan's Edo период и master of ukiyo-e―"images of the floating world." Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) был most prolific and divers artist of Japan's Edo период, с body of work reputed to include more than 30,000 drawings, paintings, and prints. Hokusai traces career of this child from working-class district of old Tokyo, then now as Edo, evoking special atmosphere of this great city and of Japanese life in time when Japan was closed to foreigners. Это urban centers наслаждался ростом здравоохранения и стабильности, ориентированной на flourishing culture of art and pleasure-seeking. Woodblock prints of the genre known as ukiyo-e―"images of the floating world"―became defining images of the age. Hokusai became один из крупных мастеров woodcut. Свою работу от portréts of populars actors and courtesans to landscapes and seascapes, including its celebrated "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," and from cleverly observated scene of everyday life to the erotic prints known as shunga. Этот "червяной лесу живет", как он называется himself, был rediscovered по ссылке и изъяты на конец бедных центров. While his prints мав велику influence на ходу Western art, це еqually true, що його himself influenced European painting, embracing techniques su as perspective and adaptation them to suit Japanese tastes. He remains one of the greatest figures of world art. 150 color illustrations