Hokusai Manga. Nature
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Hokusai Manga. Nature
39.99 €
Evgeny Semyonovich Steiner is a Japanese scholar, candidate of philological sciences, doctor of art history. He has worked at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, taught and conducted research at universities in Moscow, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Yokohama, New York, Manchester and London. Since 2012, he has been a professor at the School of Oriental Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Author of 15 books, which were published in Russia, USA, UK and Germany. E. Steiner's book Manga Hokusai: Encyclopedia of Old Japanese Life in Pictures (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2016, 4 vols.) won the 2017 Book of the Year and Enlightener awards (in the special category). Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the most famous Japanese artists of the Edo period. Throughout his life, he published albums of engraved drawings called Manga. In fifteen issues with four thousand figures and motifs, Hokusai presented an encyclopedia of old Japan in pictures, ranging from the gods and heroes of antiquity to his contemporary amorous affairs, household utensils, and diverse natural vistas. The book by Japanologist Eugene Steiner is a complete and thoroughly commented publication of Manga, unparalleled in the world in terms of completeness of illustrations and historical commentary. The author is convinced that cultural and historical explanation is in many cases absolutely necessary. "Manga Hokusai", although written not in hieroglyphics but in "figure writing", needs translation - from the language of Japanese historical and mythological stories, as well as foreign cultural realities of two hundred years ago. The book will become a desk reference and will be of interest to all art lovers, enthusiasts of Japanese culture, as well as professional Japanese and Chinese scholars.
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