Author: Carpenter, John T.
Title: Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-E Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustrations in Late Edo Japan
Description: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hotei Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. navy cloth boards w/ silver stamped printing. 357 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. pictorial & brown dustjacket. "This profusely illustrated volume, which collects essays by a distinguished roster of specialists in Japanese art, presents a wide range of current scholarship on the Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles." "Achieving worldwide renown for his dramatic landscape print series such as the Thirty-Six Views of Mouni Fuji, Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica and privately commissioned woodcuts called surimono. Less well known, Hokusai was a highly accomplished and prolific painter who produced not only pictures of courtesans of the pleasure quarters, the normal stock-in-trade of an ukiyo-e artist, but also a prodigious output based on historical and legendary themes. This volume provides new insights into all these diverse aspects of the polyvalent artist's corpus."--Jacket/WorldCat. Good+/VG- (scuffs & scratches to cloth. textblock has deep split at pgs 272/273; binding thread visible, but glue & joints holding. dustjacket has white label residue to upper front edge; edge-wear; creasing to edges) .

Keywords: Asian Artists, Hokusai, Edo, Japanese Art ; Hokusai ; ;


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