Hokusai: A Life in Drawing (Deluxe Edition) av Henri-Alexis Baatsch

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A deluxe large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai, the most prolific artist of Japan¿s Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e ¿ ¿images of the floating world¿. Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinvented by the artist in every nuance of view, season and painting; extraordinary bridges, the waterfalls of Japan, the contortions, costumes, gestures ¿ the very breath of men, women, peasants, townsmen, warriors, artisans, leaping horses, birds, insects, fish, almost live on the ground on which they are painted ¿ the countless imaginative drawings or the lively sketches done on the spot for the Manga, Hokusai¿s record of shapes and forms drawn from life or imagined over time. With a body of work comprising more than 30,000 drawings and paintings, Hokusai (1760¿1849) was the most prolific, varied and indisputably the most creative artist of old Japan. A universal genius in everything t