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 beyond 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,
Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh. Hokusai was always
a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during
his lifetime and changed his own name through over 30 pseudonyms.
In his art, he adopted the same restlessness, covering the complete
spectrum of Japanese ukiyo-e,"pictures of the floating world", from
single-sheet prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books. In
addition, he created album prints, illustrations for verse
anthologies and historical novels, and surimono, which were
privately issued prints for special occasions. Hokusai's print
series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published between c. 1830
and 1834 is the artist's most renowned work and, with its soaring
peak through different seasons and from different vantage points,
marked the towering summit of the Japanese landscape print. The
series' Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great
Wave, is one of the most recognized images of Japanese art in the
world. This TASCHEN introduction spans the length and breadth of
Hokusai's career with key pieces from his far-reaching portfolio.
Through these meticulous, majestic works and series, we trace the
variety of Hokusai's subjects, from erotic books to historical
novels, and the evolution of his vivid formalism and decisive
delineation of space through color and line that would go on to
liberate Western art from the constraints of its one-point
perspective and unleash the modernist momentum. About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological
summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her
cultural and historical importance a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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