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Rajesh Mittal [email protected] +33 (0)7 60 17 11 94 www.fouchardfilippi.com Press release Painting | Drawing | Japanese Art Hokusai The Master’s Legacy Rossella Menegazzo, editor A comprehensive survey celebrates the legacy and powerful influence of one of the great masters of Japanese art Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, active in the late 18th and early 19th century and lauded as the unchallenged master of the ukiyo-e genre, is perhaps best known for his Great Wave print, part of the equally famous series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Hokusai’s paintings, drawings and prints are renowned for their great versatility and for the wide variety of subjects they depict: from landscapes and nature to kabuki actor portraits, warriors, beautiful woman and even ghosts and spirits. Now out from Skira Editore, Hokusai. The Master’s Legacy presents a selection of more than 200 works in a magnificent pictorial survey. Alongside a comprehensive overview of his work, the book offers a reading of Hokusai’s impact on both Japanese and European art as well as a broad selection of works by Hokusai’s contemporary, Keisai Eisen, whose extensive oeuvre of seductive female portraits provides a comparison and a context for one of Japan’s greatest and most influential artists. About the Editor Rossella Menegazzo teaches History of East-Asian Art at the Università degli Studi di Milano and has published two other titles with Skira: Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro (2016) and Domon Ken. The Master of Japanese Realism (2016). Publication: March 2018 Length: 352 pages Size: 24 x 30 cm Illustrations: 329 colour Binding: Hardcover Price: €46 £40 $55 US ISBN: 978-88-572- 3694-0
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Press release
Painting | Drawing | Japanese Art
Hokusai The Master’s Legacy Rossella Menegazzo, editor
A comprehensive survey celebrates the legacy and powerful influence of one of the great masters of Japanese art
Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, active in the late 18th and early 19th century and lauded as the unchallenged master of the ukiyo-e genre, is perhaps best known for his Great Wave print, part of the equally famous series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Hokusai’s paintings, drawings and prints are renowned for their great versatility and for the wide variety of subjects they depict: from landscapes and nature to kabuki actor portraits, warriors, beautiful woman and even ghosts and spirits.
Now out from Skira Editore, Hokusai. The Master’s Legacy presents a selection of more than 200 works in a magnificent pictorial survey. Alongside a comprehensive overview of his work, the book offers a reading of Hokusai’s impact on both Japanese and European art as well as a broad selection of works by Hokusai’s contemporary, Keisai Eisen, whose extensive oeuvre of seductive female portraits provides a comparison and a context for one of Japan’s greatest and most influential artists.
About the Editor Rossella Menegazzo teaches History of East-Asian Art at the Università degli Studi di Milano and has published two other titles with Skira: Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro (2016) and Domon Ken. The Master of Japanese Realism (2016).
Publication: March 2018
Length: 352 pages
Size: 24 x 30 cm
Illustrations: 329 colour
Binding: Hardcover
Price: €46 £40 $55 US ISBN: 978-88-572- 3694-0
Rajesh Mittal [email protected] +33 (0)7 60 17 11 94 www.fouchardfilippi.com
