Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated history of Japanese prints"--
"In Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ('pictures of the Floating World') captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful prints were the result of a meticulous craft process, in which an artist's initial drawing was translated by expert carvers into multiple printing blocks for different colors. In this attractive volume, Sarah...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator, and print designer throughout his ninety-year life. Yet his most famous works of all--color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy from about 1830 to 1836. These ingenious designs, combining influences from schools of Japanese and Chinese art as well as European...
Author
Publisher
MFA publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the fascinating story of how, in the early nineteenth century, the color woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e first inspired tattoo artists as the pictorial tradition of tattooing in Japan was just beginning. It explores the Japanese tattoo's evolving meanings, from symbol of devotion to punishment and even to crime, and reveals the tales behind specific motifs. With lush, colorful images of flowers blooming on the arm of a thief, sea...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious volume advertised in 1823 as Master Iitsu's Chicken-Rib Picture Book was likely meant to be a continuation of Hokusai's famous Manga series, but a published copy of it has never been found. This eclectic and engaging collection of drawings from the peerless Japanese art holdings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, may well have been intended for that lost book. Reproduced in full for the first time as a stand-alone publication, this...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Taking a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), this major exhibition explores in detail his impact on other artists, both during his lifetime and beyond. Throughout a career of more than 70 years, Hokusai experimented with a wide range of styles and subjects, producing landscapes such as the instantly recognizable Great Wave and Red Fuji (both about 1830-31), nature studies known as: bird-and-flower pictures,...
