Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
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A landmark publication of a major new discovery of over 100 drawings by foremost Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Acquired by the British Museum in 2020, these previously unpublished drawings had been forgotten for over 70 years.
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 These 103 exciting and exquisite small drawings were made for an unpublished book called Great Picture Book of Everything – featuring wide-ranging subjects from depictions of religious, mythological, historical and literary figures to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.
This beautifully produced book draws on the latest research, illustrating the complete set of drawings, published for the first time.
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Additional information
| Publisher | British Museum Press, Reprint edition (30 Sept. 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0714124893 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0714124896 |
| Dimensions | 22.2 x 21 cm |
by Andy
The quality is what you’d expect of a book from the british museum. The bindings fantastic, beautiful cover… that came unsealed and delivered loose in a large box. Luckily it arrived with very light corner damage. Thanks Amazon!!
The contents are what I was after and it doesn’t dissapoint. Hokusai’s (or at least one of the names he was known by) work is outstanding. With a level of creativity that i only hope to come close to when I hopefully might reach 70.
If i don’t pass out from the aneurysm that looking at the page layouts is giving me. 103 portrait and landscape images… in a square book… that has enough white space below each image you could effectively practice your drawing or write indepth cliff notes on each one. Either way you got space… which could have been used to make those images really shine by just stretching the book out a couple more inches.
Anyways… still a fantastic book.
by alexandra gardner
A beautiful book. Wonderful prints, with useful and informative text. Given a a gift and very well received.
by Andy
A fantastically interesting set of drawings , showing great skill by Hokusai who is usually only seen as the art designer for Ukiyo e block prints
by Babbage
Lovely book, complements the recent British Museum exhibition.
by GCW
In these times it is hard to get to the British Museum. Never fear though because this book is almost as good as visiting. Excellent, clear reproductions of the drawings and good explanations. I would also recommend the curator’s video on YT.
by David Tuffield
I love the book, but cost of shipping from UK was $23+/-. The book arrived in a thin cardboard oversized envelope with frayed and broken corners from the book sliding around during shipping. Despite the cost or the book, $34US and the shipping and handling price; the book was unwrapped and arrived with a warped hard back cover. Very disappointing shipping attention for a very nice book.
by N. Worley
Research and pure pleasure
by Mr. R. W. M. Jones
A great book covers the exhibition and gives a tremendous insight into the mind of the artist and techniques used.