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Hokusai by Sarah E. Thompson; Joan Wright
Category: Art
Over a century and a half after his death, Katsushika Hokusai is still one of Japan's most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It attempts to answer ...Show more
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence by Hokusai (Artist); Sarah E. Thompson (Text by)
Category: Art
How artists from Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi to Whistler and Arthur Wesley Dow embraced and transformed Hokusai's dynamic style and innovationsThe great painter, book illustrator and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has become the best known of all Japanese artists and one of the most famous an ...Show more
Hokusai's Landscapes - The Complete Series by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art
The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialists The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his ninety-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works of all - t ...Show more
Hokusai's Lost Manga by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art
A mysterious 1823 advertisement for illustrated books by renowned artist Katsushika Hokusai refers to an otherwise unknown work called Master Iitsu's Chicken-Rib Picture Book. According to the ad, the book was conceived in the same year that the final volume of Hokusai's famous Manga series was supposed ...Show more
Kuniyoshi X Kunisada by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art
An exploration of the rivalry between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, two of the most popular Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century, based on masterworks from the peerless Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rival ukiyo-e masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were t ...Show more
Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints by SARAH E. THOMPSON
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A new staple volume on Japanese art, in an eminently giftable format. 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 meticulou ...Show more
Woven in Wire - Dimensional Wire Weaving in Fine Art Jewelry by Sarah Thompson
Category: Craft
Weave - Sculpt - Transform Break through the boundaries of traditional wirework jewelry to discover the world of intricate possibilities in Woven in Wire. As you weave, sculpt, and transform wire, award winning jeweler and wirework instructor Sarah Thompson guides you through the steps of achieving spec ...Show more
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