Research Catalog

Title

Hokusai : the great picture book of everything / Timothy Clark.

Author

Clark, Timothy, 1959-

Publication

• London : The British Museum Press, 2022.
• ©2021

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
• British Museum, host institution.

Description

175 pages : illustrations; 22 x 23 cm

Summary

"This landmark publication documents a major new discovery of over 100 drawings by the foremost Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Acquired by the British Museum in 2020, these previously unpublished drawings had been forgotten for over 70 years. All 103 exquisite drawings are reproduced at full size for the first time. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is considered by many to be Japan's greatest artist. During his seventy-year career, he produced a considerable oeuvre of some 3,000 colour prints, illustrations for over 200 books, hundreds of drawings and over 1,000 paintings. This exciting collection of over 103 exquisite small drawings were made for an unpublished book called The Great Picture Book of Everything - featuring wide-ranging subjects from depictions of religious, mythological, historical and literary figures to animals, birds, flowers and other natural phenomena, as well as landscapes. They are dominated by subjects that relate to ancient China and India, also Southeast and Central Asia. Many subjects found in the collection are not found in previous Hokusai works, including fascinating imaginings of the origin of human culture in ancient China. This beautifully produced book draws on the latest research, illustrating the complete set of drawings, published for the first time."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849
• Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 > Exhibitions
• 1600-1868
• Drawing, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions
• Brush drawing > Japan > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions
• Dessin japonais > 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo) > Expositions
• Dessin au lavis > Japon > 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo) > Expositions
• Drawing, Japanese > Edo period
• Japan

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Reprinted 2022.
• "Published to accompany the exhibition Hokusai : great picture book of everything at the British Museum from 30 September 2021 to 30 January 2022"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9780714124896
• 0714124893

LCCN

99991253679

OCLC

• on1263777566
• 1263777566
• SCSB-14225534

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries