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Book Synopsis The Great Wave by : David Hackett Fischer
Download or read book The Great Wave written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fischer has examined price records in many nations, and finds that great waves of rising prices in the 13th-, 16th-, 18th-, and 20th centuries were all marked by price swings of increasing volatility, falling wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, and an increase in violent crime, family disintegration, and cultural despair. 109 graphs & charts. 7 maps.
Book Synopsis Hokusai’s Great Wave by : Christine M. E. Guth
Download or read book Hokusai’s Great Wave written by Christine M. E. Guth and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hokusai written by Timothy Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life
Book Synopsis The Great Wave of Tamarind by : Nadia Aguiar
Download or read book The Great Wave of Tamarind written by Nadia Aguiar and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Nelson grew up listening to her older sister and brother recount their adventures in Tamarind, a magical island not found on any map, but she sometimes she can't tell which of her memories are hers and which are theirs. After drifting out to sea, Penny once again finds herself on the shores of Tamarind. But things are wrong on the island: portals lead to treacherous places, a strange creature is wreaking havoc, and a Great Wave is coming to bring the Bloom, magic that can stabilize the island. Whoever completes three challenges gets to catch the Bloom—and keep some of that life-changing magic for their own use. To save Tamarind and collect the magic, Penny has to brave dark ocean depths, survive the perils of the jungle, and outwit a cunning creature bent on bringing chaos. Don't miss The Great Wave of Tamarind, the stunning conclusion to Nadia Aguiar's critically acclaimed middle-grade trilogy!
Book Synopsis Beyond the Great Wave by : James King
Download or read book Beyond the Great Wave written by James King and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Great Wave by : Christopher Benfey
Download or read book The Great Wave written by Christopher Benfey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an international power. This great wave of historical and cultural reciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified during the late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-life personalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures prompted pilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The Great Wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knit group of nineteenth-century travelers—connoisseurs, collectors, and scientists—who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan. As Benfey writes, “A sense of urgency impelled them, for they were convinced—Darwinians that they were—that their quarry was on the verge of extinction.” These travelers include Herman Melville, whose Pequod is “shadowed by hostile and mysterious Japan”; the historian Henry Adams and the artist John La Farge, who go to Japan on an art-collecting trip and find exotic adventures; Lafcadio Hearn, who marries a samurai’s daughter and becomes Japan’s preeminent spokesman in the West; Mabel Loomis Todd, the first woman to climb Mt. Fuji; Edward Sylvester Morse, who becomes the world’s leading expert on both Japanese marine life and Japanese architecture; the astronomer Percival Lowell, who spends ten years in the East and writes seminal works on Japanese culture before turning his restless attention to life on Mars; and President (and judo enthusiast) Theodore Roosevelt. As well, we learn of famous Easterners come West, including Kakuzo Okakura, whose The Book of Tea became a cult favorite, and Shuzo Kuki, a leading philosopher of his time, who studied with Heidegger and tutored Sartre. Finally, as Benfey writes, his meditation on cultural identity “seeks to capture a shared mood in both the Gilded Age and the Meiji Era, amid superficial promise and prosperity, of an overmastering sense of precariousness and impending peril.”
Book Synopsis Escaping the Giant Wave by : Peg Kehret
Download or read book Escaping the Giant Wave written by Peg Kehret and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami? The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He’d never flown before, and he’s never seen the Pacific Ocean. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. Then the earthquake comes—starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. Giant tsunami waves—three or four stories high—can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature’s fury and save themselves from tsunami terror.
Book Synopsis Hokusai's Great Wave by : Timothy Clark
Download or read book Hokusai's Great Wave written by Timothy Clark and published by Objects in Focus. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Great Wave' is a colour woodblock print designed by Japanese artist Hokusai in around 1830. The print, of which numerous multiples were made, shows a monster of a wave rearing up and about to come crashing down on three fishing boats and their crews. One of a monumental series known as 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', Hokusai's Great Wave - with the graceful snow-clad Mount Fuji on the horizon, unperturbed but wittily dwarfed by the towering strength of the wave that threatens to engulf the struggling boats - has become an iconic image of the power of nature and the relative smallness of man. One of the most famous pieces of Japanese art, this extraordinary artwork has had a huge impact worldwide and has served as a source of inspiration to artists, both past and present. This beautifully illustrated book explores the meaning behind Hokusai's Great Wave, in the context of the Mount Fuji series and Japanese art as a whole. Taking an intimate look at the Wave's artistic and historical significance and its influence on popular culture, this concise introduction explains why Hokusai's modern masterpiece had such an impact after its creation in 1830 and why it continues to fascinate, inspire and challenge today.
Book Synopsis Hokusai: The Great Wave (Foiled Slimline Journal) by : Flame Tree Studio
Download or read book Hokusai: The Great Wave (Foiled Slimline Journal) written by Flame Tree Studio and published by Flame Tree Gift. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, and poets. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list and robust ivory text paper. THE ARTIST. The most notable period in Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker Hokusai's artistic life was the latter part of his career, beginning in 1830 when he was 70 years old. He began the series of landscapes he is most famous for: 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji', which included The Great Wave, off Kanagawa, probably his most iconic image. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Book Synopsis The Great Wave by : Colta Feller Ives
Download or read book The Great Wave written by Colta Feller Ives and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1974 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Admiral Perry broke through Japan's isolation in 1854, the current of Japanese trade flowed west again, bearing with it the colored woodcuts of Hokusai, Hiroshige, and their contemporaries. Some of the most avid collectors of these prints were the French Impressionists and Nabis, who found in them new ways to treat their own prints. In The Great Wave, Colta Feller Ives, Curator in Charge, Department of Prints and Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons its particular impact on the graphic work of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin.
Download or read book The Great Wave written by Francis Turnly and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Student Edition is ideal for any teacher coming to Francis Turnly's 2018 play for the first time or those who already have some familiarity with it. Spanning 1979 to 2003, The Great Wave looks at the mysterious disappearance of a Japanese schoolgirl and her mother and sister's tireless search to find her again. The girl – Hanako – is discovered living in captivity in a compound in North Korea, employed to teach a young woman Japanese language and culture. Francis Turnly's gripping play is based on a a true story and it conveys, not only the magnitude of these events globally, but also the beating human heart at the centre of this story. The commentary in the edition unpacks: This edition is invaluable in helping to make sense of this thematically and contextually rich play for students, and to bring it alive through the discussion of its inherent theatricality and production opportunities.
Download or read book Hokusai written by Matthi Forrer and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hokusai, one of Japan's most famous artists, has left a body of work comprising almost 30,000 items. This volume, designed as a catalog to accompany an exhibition in London, gives us an overview of 13 drawings and 151 woodblock prints representing landscapes, amorous couplings, kabuki actors, and scenes of daily life in 18th-century Japan.
Download or read book Onami written by Nathan Sterner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Hokusai by : Penny Quill
Download or read book The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Hokusai written by Penny Quill and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you always forgetting your friend's, family's and other contact information including addresses, phone numbers, birthdays website logins, usernames and passwords?Do you have lots of sticky notes, old envelopes or labels around the house to remember them? Would you like to find a better way? The Great Wave off Kanagawa Hokusai is a discreet combined password notebook with places for addresses, telephone numbers and even birthdays that is disguised as a book about artwork by Hokusai. Add all your website information in one handy place to organize your offline and internet life.Increased SecurityThe attractive design is a password journal and address book with a difference. The cover is from a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai and it was created so that opportunist thieves shouldn't know what it is at a glance. The words password book or security are not on the cover. This means that you can hide it in plain sight on your bookshelf at home with other books.Take a Look Inside to see how this alphabetized journal combines: an address book, a password book and.a phone book.What you can expect from this internet password organizer and contacts book: Tabbed effect alphabetical pagesAre you looking for a password book with tabs? The Great Wave off Kanagawa Hokusai is a password journal with printed alphabetical tabs running down the edge of the pages. Flick the pages to find your passwords quickly and easily.Disguised cover to make it not so obvious what it containsThere are several password logbooks on the market but this one was created so it could be hidden in plain sight. It looks like a book about a Hokusai picture from the outside but inside there are 2 boxes for your login information on each page. Other passwords books by Ceri Clark/Penny Quill contain 3 boxes per page but each box in this book contains extra sections for telephone numbers and address information.Section on creating secure passwordsThere are risks to however a password is stored. These can be from online thieves or opportunist burglars. At the front of The Great Wave off Kanagawa Hokusai is a brief section for creating a secure password that can be written down but can't be used by someone who has the book (unless you tell them the extra password information needed).Notes and other pages to add other useful information like software licensesThere is a section at the back to add information that won't fit in the usual password boxes. There are notes pages but also places to add home network settings and license information. If you have a friend coming around who wants to use the WiFi, just add it in here and you will be able to instantly find it when you need it.More space to write in your informationThis handy-sized password keeper is 6 inches wide by 9 inches high for more space to write in your login information. There are 2 boxes per page. It has plenty of space to write in all the information you need.Never struggle to find your contact information again! If you are looking for a password logbook, an address book with tabs or you just love art by Japanese artists, look no furth
Book Synopsis Hokusai: the Great Picture Book of Everything by : Timothy Clark
Download or read book Hokusai: the Great Picture Book of Everything written by Timothy Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced book draws on the latest research, illustrating the complete set of drawings, published for the first time.
Book Synopsis Japanese Prints by : Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc
Download or read book Japanese Prints written by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
