葛饰北斋（1760-1849）不仅是日本绘画的巨匠之一和江户时代的传奇人物，他还是西方现代主义的创始人之一，其丰富的版画、插图、绘画和其他形式构成了最全面的浮世绘艺术作品和日本风的典范。他的影响力遍及印象派、新艺术派等，令莫奈（买了他的23张版画）、贝尔特•莫里索、埃德加•德加、玛丽•卡萨特和梵高等人着迷不已。

北斋总是在搬家。他一生中改变住所的次数多达90多次，并使用过至少七个假名。在他的艺术作品中，他采用了同一种不安，这种不安涵盖了绘画和木刻印版画各个层次的日本“浮世绘”，从风景和演员的单张版画到色请书籍、专辑版画、诗歌选集和历史小说的插图，以及为特殊场合私人发行的印刷品。

北斋的版画系列《富岳三十六景》出版于1826年至1833年出版，是这位艺术家最**的作品，标志着日本风景版画的最高峰。这个系列的《神奈川冲浪里》是世界上最受认可的日本艺术形象之一。

TASCHEN出版的这本专著借助来自他影响深远的作品集中的重要作品拓宽了北斋的职业生涯的深度和宽度。通过这些细致、庄严的作品和系列，我们描绘了北斋的各种主题，从色情书到历史小说，以及他生动的形式主义和对空间的决定性描绘（通过颜色和线条，这两者将继续把西方艺术从它单点视角和限制中解放出来，释放现代主义的力量）的演变。

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings, and beyond forms one of the most comprehensive oeuvres of ukiyo-e art and a benchmark of japonisme. His influence spread through Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and beyond, enrapturing the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh.Hokusai was always a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his own name through over 30 pseudonyms. In his art, he adopted the same restlessness, covering the complete spectrum of Japanese ukiyo-e,"pictures of the floating world", from single-sheet prints of landscapes and actors to erotic books. In addition, he created album prints, illustrations for verse anthologies and historical novels, and surimono, which were privately issued prints for special occasions.Hokusai's print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published between c. 1830 and 1834 is the artist's most renowned work and, with its soaring peak through different seasons and from different vantage points, marked the towering summit of the Japanese landscape print. The series' Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known simply as The Great Wave, is one of the most recognized images of Japanese art in the world.This TASCHEN introduction spans the length and breadth of Hokusai's career with key pieces from his far-reaching portfolio. Through these meticulous, majestic works and series, we trace the variety of Hokusai's subjects, from erotic books to historical novels, and the evolution of his vivid formalism and decisive delineation of space through color and line that would go on to liberate Western art from the constraints of its one-point perspective and unleash the modernist momentum.