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Hokusai's Fuji (Hardcover)
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Hokusai's Fuji (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R594
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A wonderfully illustrated exploration of one of Hokusai's key
motifs: Mount Fuji. Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and
the three volumes of his subsequent One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji
show his fascination with a single motif: Mount Fuji. Hokusai's
near-obsession with Fuji was part of his hankering after artistic
immortality – in Buddhist and Daoist tradition, Fuji was thought
to hold the secret to eternal life, as one popular interpretation
of its name suggests: 'Fu-shi' ('not death'). Thirty-six Views of
Mount Fuji was produced from c. 1830 to 1832 when Hokusai was in
his seventies and at the height of his career. Among the prints are
three of the artist's most famous: The Great Wave off Kanagawa,
Fine Wind, Clear Morning and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit. By
the time he created his second great tribute to Mount Fuji, three
volumes comprising One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, he was using
the artist names Gakyo rojin ('Old Man Crazy to Paint'), and Manji
('Ten Thousand Things', or 'Everything'). Contrasting the
mountain's steadfastness and solidity with the ravages of the
surrounding elements, Hokusai depicts Fuji through different
seasons, weather conditions and settings, and in so doing
communicates an important message: while life changes, Fuji stands
still. Including all the illustrations from these two masterpieces,
this book also features many of Hokusai’s earlier renditions of
the mountain, as well as later paintings. In this way, through
Mount Fuji, this volume traces a history of Hokusai’s oeuvre
overall.
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