This XXL edition transports readers to 19th-century Japan with Katsushika Hokusai's seminal Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, an artifact of art history and masterpiece of woodblock practice. This sweeping reproduction of the complete 46 plates and 114 color variations, gathered from museums and collections worldwide, is bound in Japanese style.
Review
“From the age of five, I have had a mania for sketching the form of things.” - Hokusai
“ [Thirty-Six views of Mount Fuji] will enable you to get closer to Hokusai’s beauty and genius.” - creativeboom.com
“The year’s most beautiful art volume celebrates Hokusai’s big wave, snow-capped peak, tourists on the bridge, not just as beloved images but for the exquisite craft of woodblock printing. An object of luxurious, tactile delight - Japanese traditional binding, uncut paper, silken box with wooden closures - enhanced by insightful commentary.” - The Financial Times
“A visually stunning reproduction of the great Japanese printmaker’s most famous series.” - The Times
“Shares the late great’s fascination with the dormant volcano through his original series of 36 prints.” - mymodernmet.com
About the Author
Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history at the University of Bonn and obtained his PhD in Japanese studies from Leiden University with a thesis on 19th-century actor prints. From 2008 to 2013 he was director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art in Hanford, California, and since 2013 has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, head of the Department of Japanese and Korean Art, and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He is the author of The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido (2017), Japanese Woodblock Prints (2019), and Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (2021).
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