Description
Building on the themes of the exhibition, authors from the UK, Europe, Japan and USA have engaged with late Hokusai from a variety of perspectives, both intrinsic and extrinsic to his life and works. Essays have been grouped within the broad categories of 'thought' -- Hokusai's intellectual concerns and the ways his art brought these to life; 'technique' - how the artist pursued excellence in a wide range of media, within a commercialised art market; and 'society' - dimensions of cultural interaction and patronage. A fourth section on 'legacy' looks at how stories of Hokusai have been as much generated by 130 years of scholarship, as they have by his works themselves. Challengingly, faked paintings and printed works have both contaminated and supported those stories. This innovative approach provides new insights into the work of one of the world's most celebrated artists and suggests many new avenues for Hokusai research.
About the Author
Timothy Clark FBA is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Until 2019 he was Head of the Japanese Section at the Museum, where he led a major reinstallation of the Museum's permanent collections in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries (2018). Tim curated and co-curated a succession of special exhibitions at the BM, most recently Shunga (2013), Hokusai (2017) and Manga (2018) and Nara (2019). From 2016 2019, he was Principal Investigator in the UK AHRC-funded international research project Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society (2016 2019). His most recent publication is Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything (2021).
Book Information
ISBN 9780861592319
Author Timothy Clark
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint British Museum Press
Publisher British Museum Press