Mount Fuji: Hokusai and Hiroshige Japanese Landscape Prints From The Collection Of Feliks Manggha Jasieński
Editing: Małgorzata Martini
ISBN: 978-83-62096-20-6
Pages: 288
Format: 280 x 230 mm
Language: english
Published: 2012
paperback
ISBN: 978-83-62096-20-6
Pages: 288
Format: 280 x 230 mm
Language: english
Published: 2012
paperback
The first comprehensive treatment of the subject – Mount Fuji in Japanese art – in Polish writing, the book is based on the collection of Poland’s greatest art collector, Feliks Jasieński. Both the exhibition and the publication show the vision of landscape in Japanese traditional woodblock print art based on views of Fuji as rendered by the two greatest artists of the late ukiyo-e period, Katsushika Hokusai (1760−1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797−1858), in their major works.
Published as a carefully-edited album, with fine graphic design, the book comprises extensive illustrative material in full colour, catalogue descriptions of specific works and commentaries. Essays on Mount Fuji portray ‘Japan’s sacred mountain’ both as a volcano and as a pervading presence in the culture and art of Japan. The quoted fragments of relevant commentaries by the collector are indicative of his fascination with Fuji, Japanese art and the two great artists. All this material is complemented by the chronologies of the artists’ lives and work and a glossary of Japanese terms.