Hiroshige - Gian Carlo Calza

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Résumé :
A fascinating and comprehensive reference album of Hiroshige, the last great figure of the ukiyo-e style.

The great artist of the Japanese popular school of printmaking, Hiroshige (1797-1858) transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. With Hokusai, he dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the nineteenth century. He captured, in a poetic, gentle way that all could understand, the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape as well varied moods of memorable places at different times. His total output was immense, some 5400 prints in all. Ukiyo-e publishing was not a cultural institution subsidized by public funds, but rather a commercial business. During his lifetime, Hiroshige was well known and commercially successful. But the Japanese society did not take 100 much notice of him. His real reputation started with his discovery in Europe....

Biographie:
Gian Carlo Calza is a scholar of Asian and intercultural cultures between Asia and the West. Former Professor of East Asian Art History at the University of Venice until 2010, he directed the International Hokusai Research Center in Milan from 1990 to 2012. He has published many books, exhibition catalogues and articles....