Kawase Hasui 40 Prints (eBook)

Cristina Berna, Eric Thomsen (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
102 Seiten
BoD - Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-84-1092-233-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Hasui Kawase May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957 was a Japanese artist that took up ukiyo-e printing as it disappeared as a commercial printing form and instead became an art for its own sake, so to say.
In Hokusai and Hiroshige´s time, first half of the 1800s, ukiyo-e prints were cheap - around the price of a bowl of soup -and filled the market which would later develop in postcards and magazines.
Hasui designed traditional prints in a western style, mostly landscapes, often with special lighting effects like evening og night and special weather conditions- he was fond of showing temples and shrines in snow.
He worked closely with a single publisher - Shozaburo Watanabe - throughout his life. The Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 destroyed Watanabe´s workshop, including the finished woodblocks for the yet-undistributed prints and Hasui´s sketchbooks. He lost 188 sketchbooks in which he had drawn landscapes and other subjects

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
• Schlagworte: Edo • Hasui • Hiroshige • Hokusai • Ukiyo-e
• ISBN-10: 84-1092-233-9 / 8410922339
• ISBN-13: 978-84-1092-233-4 / 9788410922334