Katsushika Hokusai Concepts

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani · 20 Feb 2024 · 262pp · 69,328 words

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, an image that embodies the feelings of dread and hope that come with swift, unpredictable change. Created around 1831 by the brilliant Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, the image has been embraced by multiple generations and cultures, from middle-class art lovers in Edo (Tokyo) delighted to acquire a wood-block print

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020

design. Impressionists and those inspired by them, such as Degas, Whistler, van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec, immersed themselves in the playful artwork of Kuniyoshi and Hokusai to free themselves from the strictures of ossified European style. Before long, things Japanese began to transform what it meant to be cultured. Charles Tiffany

The Fractalist

by Benoit Mandelbrot · 30 Oct 2012

Frame: aft.1, aft.3 Augusto Giacometti, 1912: bm1.12 Sigmund Handelman: itr.1, 21.6, 23.2, bm1.6 Eriko Hironaka: 25.7 Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1829–33: bm1.14 Mark Laff: itr.1 Mark R. Laff and Sigmund Handelman: 29.4 Shaun Lovejoy: bm1.4 Benoit B. Mandelbrot Archives

Paper: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky · 3 Apr 2016 · 485pp · 126,597 words

blocks in different colors. Ukiyo-e reached its highest development in the nineteenth century, shortly before Gauguin was born, with the landscape prints of Katsushika Hokusai. His 1831 wood-block series, “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” is the world’s most famous work of ukiyo-e, and one of these

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which Have Been Used to Describe Events (Koops), 250, 254, 291 Hoe, Richard M., 239, 343 Hoffman, William, 221 Hoffmann, François-Ignace-Joseph, 227–28 Hokusai, Katsushika, 266 Holbein, Hans, the Younger, 116, 163 Holland, 340 Japanese paper imported by, 177 maritime trade of, 176 papermaking in, 167–71, 231–32

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux · 9 Sep 2008 · 651pp · 190,224 words

, as some of the oldest woodblock prints, the ukiyo-e from which manga evolved. The word itself was used in Hokusai Manga, a sketchbook of the nineteenth-century master Katsushika Hokusai, who was making brilliant landscapes as well as porn as he approached his ninetieth year. Erotic prints of this kind are

Eyewitness Top 10 Los Angeles

by Catherine Gerber · 29 Mar 2010 · 162pp · 61,105 words

work (right) in the last year of his life in a mental asylum. The intense color and energetic composition borrow from Gauguin and Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Italian @ Young Woman at a Table Cézanne’s (1839–1906) emotionally charged painting of a melancholy young woman shows off his great versatility and technical

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt · 30 Sep 2017 · 345pp · 84,847 words

red and orange hues. In representing a prototype in constantly new ways, Monet was making use of the first creative tool: bending. Like Monet, Katsushika Hokusai took a visual icon – Japan’s Mount Fuji – and created thirty-six woodblock prints, depicting it in different seasons, from different distances, and in different

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The Rough Guide to Paris

by Rough Guides · 1 May 2023 · 688pp · 190,793 words

rumoured, orgies. Experienced tunnel-goers talked of elaborate murals and a huge, pillared party room known as ‘La Plage’, overlooked by a graffiti version of Hokusai’s The Wave. In fact, the tunnels underneath Chaillot form only a small part of a vast network that dates back to the medieval era

Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World

by Joshua Paul Dale · 15 Dec 2023 · 209pp · 81,560 words

twelfth-century Scroll of Frolicking Animals. In the Edo period the word ‘manga’ referred to a collection of unrelated sketches in an artist’s notebook. Hokusai (c.1760–1849), the famed print artist, published fifteen volumes of such sketches, with subjects that included catalogues of facial expressions, animals and plants, along

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words

up SoftBank’s prospects. The tide is turning, he declared, as he stood next to a slide with a crashing wave drawing from the famed Hokusai woodcut. That same day, the World Health Organization announced it had a name for the new virus strain: Covid-19. On 10 March, Masa broke