10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOKUSAI»
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Hokusai in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hokusai and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This is followed by a series of essays, composed by distinguished Western and Japanese scholars, that present new research on a range of crucial areas of interest in Hokusai studies.
Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai, one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe, greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh.
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Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e
The book contains a commentary on the artist's life and work, and details outlining composition and technique. Hokusai is perhaps the Asian artist best known in the West.
Seiji Nagata, Hokusai Katsushika, 1999
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Hokusai, first manga master
More than a hundred years before Japanese comics swept the globe, the master engraver Hokusai was producing beautiful, surreal, and often downright wacky sketches and drawings, filled with many of the characters and themes found in ...
Jocelyn Bouquillard, Christophe Marquet, 2007
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Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-Painting, Printmaking and Book ...
This profusely illustrated volume presents groundbreaking scholarship on the Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles.
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Hokusai's Mount Fuji: the complete views in color
This complete collection of Hokusais famous views of Mount Fuji is the only high-quality reproduction of these engravings, long considered the Japanese masters greatest works.
Jocelyn Bouquillard, Hokusai Katsushika, 2007
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The Great Wave: A Children's Book Inspired by
Hokusai
A Japanese couple adopts a boy found in a giant wave who does not grow, in a story inspired by Hokusai's "The Great Wave Off Kanegawa" and featuring information on the artist and his work on the back lining papers.
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Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity:
Hokusai's ...
The book explores the nature of national identity constructs produced in pre-modern Japan by examining two aspects of its cultural production, the sphere of fine arts and the sphere of literature inter-twined with a genre of poetry ...
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Hokusai's Project: The Articulation of Pictorial Space
The book opens with a discussion on how Hokusai broke with the pictorial habits of ukiyo-e, which then leads into an examination of three main themes: How Hokusai learned his trade; Hokusai, Mount Fuji and the articulation of pictorial ...
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The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of
Hokusai
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOKUSAI»
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I'm a big fan of Hokusai. He is one of the greatest artists, in my opinion, who ever lived; his virtuosity matches that of Rubens or John Singer ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
The Suburban News | Three weeks of genre cinema madness …
Having kicked off on Tuesday, July 14 with screenings of the anime film Miss Hokusai and Marvel's latest offering, Ant-Man, it offered an early ... «The Suburban Newspaper, Jul 15»
The Five Scariest Takeaways From the New Yorker Article About the …
It will not look like a Hokusai-style wave, rising up from the surface of the sea and breaking from above. It will look like the whole ocean, ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
Lixiana (Edoxaban) for DVT and PE Receives NICE …
The drug's NICE recommendation is the result of positive results from an international Phase III study called Hokusai VTE, which involved ... «Pulmonary Hypertension News, Jul 15»
Capital Cities' Spencer Ludwig Sings the Praises of the Lowly …
... atop amps midsolo and pogo exuberantly around the stage in BLK DNM leather pants, his hair a half-undercut, half-mad-Hokusai wave. «New York Times, Jul 15»
NICE recommends once-daily LIXIANA® (edoxaban) for the …
The key clinical evidence for edoxaban in VTE came from a global phase 3 study, called Hokusai VTE, which investigated the efficacy and ... «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
When Japonism Bewitched Europe
Thus did the graphic artist Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914) discover drawings by Hokusai in 1856 on paper packing in a box of Japanese ... «Nippon.com, Jul 15»
'Miss Hokusai,' 'Ant-Man' to Open Fantasia Fest
Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, running July 14 through August 4, has revealed its 2015 film lineup. Featuring a healthy blend of ... «Animation Magazine, Jul 15»
Three fantastic Japan-themed exhibits at Boston's Museum of Fine …
Besides the Hokusai collection, the museum is also hosting a particularly powerful exhibit displaying the work of 17 photographers in the wake ... «RocketNews24, Jul 15»
ANIME NEWS: 'Miss Hokusai' takes Jury Award at Annecy
Keiichi Hara's historical drama "Miss Hokusai" captured the Jury Award at the 2015 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the world's ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»
