• Hokusai Japanese Woodcuts of the Thun Collection

Hokusai Japanese Woodcuts of the Thun Collection

On a Journey to Japan, Michael Thun purchased his first two Ukiyo-e, translated as "images of the flowing, transitory world". Today his collection contains more than one thousand of these japanese woodcuts. Among impressive art prints from three centuries there are also numerous works of Katsushika Hokusai. For the first time, these woodcuts are presented comprehensively in this exhibition catalogue. With a letter by Michael Thun, Veit Görner, the director of the kestnergesellschaft, became aware of this extraordinary collection. It provides an incredible insight into Japanese art and cultural history. In an exhibition of the kestnergesellschaft, these traditional Ukiyo-e enter into contrast with abouit one hundred, large-sized contemporary photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki.The prints—whose sensitively conceived interiors, their actors caught up in the clichés of roles which have survived for hundreds of years, and their elaborate rhetoric which characterizes the various prints from diverse workshops, regions and eras—seem to present an absolutely contrasting program to Araki's direct pictorial language. But this could be considered to be a false conclusion, for upon closer inspection the woodcuts as well reveal only slightly concealed allusions to erotic desire and sexuality. In addition, there is another catalogue, containing Arakis photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki. Both books are available separately, or combined in a slipcase: Araki meets Hokusai.

Hardcover 17,3 x 24,5 cm 144 pages 101 color illustrations English, German Out of print ISBN 978-3-939583-98-1 2008

Artist:

Katsushika Hokusai

Editor:

kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Veit Görner, Frank-Thorsten Moll

Texts:

Veit Görner, Michael Thun

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