Hokusai: Great Picture Book of Everything
Regular price £25.00A collection of 103 exciting and exquisite small drawings by Hokusai that were made for an unpublished book called Great Picture Book of Everything
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.
These 103 exciting and exquisite small drawings were made for an unpublished book called Great Picture Book of Everything – featuring wide-ranging subjects from depictions of religious, mythological, historical and literary figures to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, and 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.
Details
- Author: Timothy Clark, Honorary research fellow, British Museum
- Hardcover: 176 pages | 150 illustrations
- Date published: September 2021
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-0714124896
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 21 cm
