Hokusai : 1760-1849 / Rhiannon Paget.
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TextSeries: Basic art series 2.0Publication details: Köln : Taschen, [2018] Description: 95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmISBN: 9783836563376; 3836563371Subject(s): Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation | Wood-engraving, Japanese | Color prints, Japanese | UkiyoeLOC classification: NE1325.K3 | P34 2018Summary: "Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings and other works forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of Japonisme. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh."
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"Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings and other works forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of Japonisme. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).
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