Research Catalog

Title

Hokusai : beyond the great wave / edited by Timothy Clark.

Author

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

Publication

• New York, New York : Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, 2017.
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Clark, Timothy, 1959-
• あべのハルカス美術館
• British Museum, host institution.
• Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, host institution.

Description

352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

"An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. His long artistic career is often presented as a chronological sequence. This publication takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of late works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai's life. Hokusai's personal beliefs are contemplated here through analyses of major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. Due attention is also paid to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Ōi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, myth, and history."--

Alternative Title

Beyond the great wave

Subjects

• Painting, Japanese
• Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849
• Painting, Japanese > Edo period
• 1600-1868
• Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 > Exhibitions
• Color prints, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Color prints, Japanese > Edo period
• Painting, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Hokusai: beyond the great wave' at the British Museum from 25 May to 13 August 2017 and the exhibition 'Hokusai - Fuji o koete' at Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, from 6 October to 19 November 2017"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-339) and index.

Contents

Hokusai : the final years / Roger S. Keyes -- Late Hokusai, backwards / Timothy Clark -- Hokusai's thought / Angus Lockyer -- The power of Hokusai's line / Matsuba Ryōko -- Hokusai in old age : his ideas, his way / Asano Shūgō -- Hokusai and late Tokugawa society / Alfred Haft -- Catalogue. Hokusai from twenty to sixty -- Mt Fuji and the Great wave -- Worlds seen -- Worlds imagined -- Hokusai's world -- Immortality.

Call Number

JQF 18-466

ISBN

• 9780500094068
• 0500094063

LCCN

2016952916

OCLC

985653281

Author

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist.

Title

Hokusai : beyond the great wave / edited by Timothy Clark.

Publisher

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Japanese

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-339) and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1868

Added Author

Clark, Timothy, 1959- editor.

British Museum, host institution.

Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-466