{"product_id":"hokusai-le-fou-de-dessin","title":"Hokusai. The Madman for Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eHokusai: The blue wave crowned with foam that rises monstrously off Mount Fuji, the famous volcano magnified and reinvented by the artist in all the nuances of viewpoints, seasons, and painting, the bizarre bridges, the waterfalls of Japan, the contortions, costumes, gestures, the breathing of men, women, peasants, city dwellers, warriors, artisans, the leaping horses, birds, insects, fish almost alive on the fabric where they are painted, the countless drawings of imagination or the sketches captured on the fly in the Manga, this collection of facts and forms seen or improvised over the days...\u003cbr\u003eWith this body of work of more than 30,000 drawings and paintings, Hokusai (1760 – 1849) was the most prolific, varied, and undeniably the most creative artist of ancient Japan. A universal genius for everything related to drawing and painting in his time, he practiced all genres of ukiyo-e, the \"pictures of the floating world\" as his contemporaries liked to call them to speak of their pleasures and daily lives.\u003cbr\u003eThe book traces the career of this child from a popular district of old Tokyo, then called Edo, and the very special atmosphere of this great city and Japanese life when Japan, closed to foreigners, developed a powerfully original culture in isolation. Having become one of the great masters of printmaking, the \"madman of drawing\" as he called himself, was rediscovered by the Impressionists and by the aesthetes of the late 19th century. He has since remained one of the greatest and, by his personality, one of the most endearing figures in universal art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Grimoire Ancien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56552143290693,"sku":"9782754107839","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1007\/1333\/3061\/files\/hokusai-le-fou-de-dessin-4530419.webp?v=1778592435","url":"https:\/\/legrimoireancien.com\/en\/products\/hokusai-le-fou-de-dessin","provider":"© 2026 Le Grimoire Ancien","version":"1.0","type":"link"}