{"product_id":"hokusais-landscapes-the-complete-series-9780878468669","title":"Hokusai's Landscapes: The Complete Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works--the color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy that lasted from about 1830 to 1836. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHokusai's landscapes revolutionized Japanese printmaking and became icons of world art within a few decades of the artist's death. \u003ci\u003eHokusai's Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e focuses exclusively on this pivotal body of the artist's work, the first book to do so. Featuring stunning color reproductions of works from the incomparable Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the largest collection of Japanese prints outside Japan), \u003ci\u003eHokusai's Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e examines the magnetic appeal of Hokusai's designs and the circumstances of their creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes all published prints of the artist's eight major landscape series: \u003ci\u003eThirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/i\u003e (1830-32), \u003ci\u003eA Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces\u003c\/i\u003e (1833-34), \u003ci\u003eSnow, Moon and Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e (1833), \u003ci\u003eEight Views of the Ryukyu Islands\u003c\/i\u003e (1832-33), \u003ci\u003eOne Thousand Pictures of the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e (1832-33), \u003ci\u003eRemarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces\u003c\/i\u003e (1834), \u003ci\u003eA True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1833) and \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e (1835). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking prolifically in the years just before Japan opened to the West in 1853, \u003cb\u003eKatsushika Hokusai\u003c\/b\u003e (1760-1849) was the first Japanese artist to be internationally recognized. His cleverly composed ukiyo-e prints of everyday life and the landscapes of Edo Japan arrived in a 19th-century Europe gripped by \u003ci\u003eJaponisme\u003c\/i\u003e-mania, where they influenced artists such as Degas, Gauguin, Manet and Van Gogh.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MFA Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618432553234,"sku":"9780878468669","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_747ec4eb-c499-4a0e-bc06-2c51849fa809.jpg?v=1732535571","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hokusais-landscapes-the-complete-series-9780878468669","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}