Read Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

Christine Guth

4.9/5 (25976 ratings)

Description:Hokusai's "Great Wave," as it is commonly known today, is arguably one of Japan's most successful exports, its commanding cresting profile instantly recognizable no matter how different its representations in media and style. In this richly illustrated and highly original study, Christine Guth examines the iconic wave from its first publication in 1831 through the remarkable range of its articulations, arguing that it has been a site where the tensions, contradictions, and, especially, the productive creativities of the local and the global have been negotiated and expressed. She follows the wave's trajectory across geographies, linking its movements with larger political, economic, technological, and sociocultural developments. Adopting a case study approach, Guth explores issues that map the social life of the iconic wave across time and place, from the initial reception of the woodblock print in Japan, to the image's adaptations as part of "international nationalism," its place in American perceptions of Japan, its commercial adoption for lifestyle branding, and finally to its identification as a tsunami, bringing not culture but disaster in its wake.Wide ranging in scope yet grounded in close readings of disparate iterations of the wave, multidisciplinary and theoretically informed in its approach, Hokusai's Great Wave will change both how we look at this global icon and the way we study the circulation of Japanese prints. This accessible and engagingly written work moves beyond the standard hagiographical approach to recognize, as categories of analysis, historical and geographic contingency as well as visual and technical brilliance. It is a book that will interest students of Japan and its culture and more generally those seeking fresh perspectives on the dynamics of cultural globalization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon. To get started finding Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0824839609

Description: Hokusai's "Great Wave," as it is commonly known today, is arguably one of Japan's most successful exports, its commanding cresting profile instantly recognizable no matter how different its representations in media and style. In this richly illustrated and highly original study, Christine Guth examines the iconic wave from its first publication in 1831 through the remarkable range of its articulations, arguing that it has been a site where the tensions, contradictions, and, especially, the productive creativities of the local and the global have been negotiated and expressed. She follows the wave's trajectory across geographies, linking its movements with larger political, economic, technological, and sociocultural developments. Adopting a case study approach, Guth explores issues that map the social life of the iconic wave across time and place, from the initial reception of the woodblock print in Japan, to the image's adaptations as part of "international nationalism," its place in American perceptions of Japan, its commercial adoption for lifestyle branding, and finally to its identification as a tsunami, bringing not culture but disaster in its wake.Wide ranging in scope yet grounded in close readings of disparate iterations of the wave, multidisciplinary and theoretically informed in its approach, Hokusai's Great Wave will change both how we look at this global icon and the way we study the circulation of Japanese prints. This accessible and engagingly written work moves beyond the standard hagiographical approach to recognize, as categories of analysis, historical and geographic contingency as well as visual and technical brilliance. It is a book that will interest students of Japan and its culture and more generally those seeking fresh perspectives on the dynamics of cultural globalization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon. To get started finding Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

More Books

JAPANESE ART OF EDO PERIOD

JAPANESE ART OF EDO PERIOD

Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868

Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868

Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan

Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan

Confidences fantastiques: Le démon de l'invisible selon Louis Pauwels, Marie Bell, Paul Guth, Christine Garnier, Jean Rigaux, Michelle Maurois, Georges ... Paul Vialar, Léonor Fini (French Edition)

Confidences fantastiques: Le démon de l'invisible selon Louis Pauwels, Marie Bell, Paul Guth, Christine Garnier, Jean Rigaux, Michelle Maurois, Georges ... Paul Vialar, Léonor Fini (French Edition)

Art of Edo Japan. The Artist and the City 1615-1868 by Christine Guth (1996-04-30)

Art of Edo Japan. The Artist and the City 1615-1868 by Christine Guth (1996-04-30)

Art of Edo Japan (10) by Guth, Christine [Paperback (2010)]

Art of Edo Japan (10) by Guth, Christine [Paperback (2010)]

Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era

Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era

Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon by Christine M. E. Guth (2015-01-31)

Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon by Christine M. E. Guth (2015-01-31)