{"product_id":"hokusai","title":"Hokusai","description":"\u003cp\u003e Meet the artist whose majestic influence swept across the globe. Hokusai, masterful artist and printmaker, is not only one of the giants of Japanese art but also a figure of profound significance for a significant part of Western modernism. He inspired a new understanding of space in artists such as Monet, Morisot, Cassatt, Klimt, and many others. This introduction, which spans from erotic books to historical novels to print albums, surveys his entire portfolio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e The crazy old painter\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami in the art world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDiscover the artist whose majestic influence spread throughout the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also one of the founders of Western modernism. His prolific range of prints, illustrations, and paintings constitutes one of the most complete expressions of the ukiyo-e art genre and is a fundamental reference point for Japonisme. His influence extended to Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and Jugendstil, among others, and captivated artists such as Claude Monet (who purchased 23 of his prints), Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHokusai was always an active man. Throughout his life, he changed his address more than 90 times and used at least seven pseudonyms. His art reflected this same restlessness, encompassing the full spectrum of Japanese ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world), a genre of woodblock prints and paintings that includes everything from individual prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books, print albums, and illustrations for poetry anthologies and historical novels. Hokusai also produced surimono, private prints produced for special occasions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHokusai's series of woodblock prints, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, published between 1830 and 1834, is the artist's most famous work. It depicts the mountain's peak rising in different seasons and from different viewpoints, and represents the pinnacle of Japanese landscape printmaking. The series The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great Wave, features some of the most recognizable images in Japanese art worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This TASCHEN book covers Hokusai's entire career and presents the key works from his extensive portfolio. Through these majestic and meticulously crafted pieces and series, it explores the range of themes the artist addressed, from erotic books to historical novels, as well as the evolution of his vivid formalism and his unique organization of space through color and line, which would liberate Western art from the constraints of single perspective and unleash the modernist impulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e About the author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eRhiannon Paget studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and received her doctorate in Japanese Art History from the University of Sydney, Australia. As curator of Asian art at the John \u0026amp; Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, she has published research on Japanese woodblock prints, textiles, board games, and nihonga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.53 kg, 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52419944251739,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/8441\/2251\/files\/imgi_37_9d4a1abd616fc3f4afe218d56c190e2b.png?v=1771525202","url":"https:\/\/innovart.art\/en\/products\/hokusai","provider":"Innovart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}