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BEYOND THE GREAT WAVE - JAMES KING KARTONIERT (TB)

The Japanese landscape print has had a tremendous influence on Western art of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. In Japan and in the West it is often seen as the dominant form in
Ukiyo-e  pictures from the floating world. And yet for all its importance  it is a genre whose
history has never been written. Beyond The Great Wave is a survey or overview for all those
interested in discovering the inner dynamics of one of art history's most remarkable
achievements. However  it is also a quest narrative  in which landscapes and notions of Japan
as a homeland are intertwined and interconnected. Although there has never been a book-length
study of the Japanese landscape print in either Japanese or English  a great deal has been
written about the two giants of the genre  Hokusai and Hiroshige. From what traditions did
these two nineteenth-century artists emerge? Who were their predecessors? What influence  if
any  did they have on other Ukiyo-e artists? Can their influence be seen in the shin-hanga and
sôsaku-hanga artists of the twentieth century? This book addresses these issues  but it also
looks at a number of other factors  such as the growth of tourism in nineteenth-century Japan 
necessary for understanding this genre.

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