100 Views of Mount Fuji - Softcover

Clark, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0834804921 ISBN 13: 9780834804920

Publisher: Weatherhill Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Mount Fuji is renowned worldwide as Japan's highest and most perfectly shaped mountain. Serving as a potent metaphor in classical love poetry and revered since ancient times by mountain-climbing sects of both the Shinto and Buddhist faiths, Fuji has taken on many roles in pre-modern Japan. This volume explores a wide range of manifestations of the mountain in more recent visual culture, as portrayed in more than 100 works by Japanese painters and print designers from the 17th century to the present. Featured alongside traditional paintings of the Kano, Sumiyoshi, and Shijo schools are the more individualistic print designs of Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Munakata Shiko, Hagiwara Hideo, and others. New currents of empiricism and subjectivity have enabled artists of recent centuries to project a surprisingly wide range of personal interpretations onto what was once regarded as such an eternal, unchanging symbol.

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About the Author

Timothy Clark is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Japanese Antiquities at The British Museum. His other books include Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum and Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai .

Edition details

• Publisher: Weatherhill Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0834804921
• ISBN 13: 9780834804920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160