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In the aftermath of the recent disasters in Japan, this video about Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, is poignant.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Hokusai's Great Wave; Yayoi Kusama's Dots; a Low-Tech iPad Jane Chafin 2011
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Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, first publication: between 1826 and 1833, this edition: later, color woodblock print, Library of Congress, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Hokusai's Great Wave; Yayoi Kusama's Dots; a Low-Tech iPad Jane Chafin 2011
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Facebook also removed an image of Katsushika Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife è¸ã¨æµ·å¥³, an 1814 woodblock print depicting an octopus performing cunnilingus on a nude Japanese woman, that was posted on the wall of Jerry Saltz, the famed New York Magazine art critic and Bravo TV judge for the popular Work of Art reality show.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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In the aftermath of the recent disasters in Japan, I found this BBC video about Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, particularly poignant.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Hokusai's Great Wave; Yayoi Kusama's Dots; a Low-Tech iPad Jane Chafin 2011
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In the aftermath of the recent disasters in Japan, I found this BBC video about Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, particularly poignant.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Hokusai's Great Wave; Yayoi Kusama's Dots; a Low-Tech iPad Jane Chafin 2011
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Facebook also removed an image of Katsushika Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife 蛸と海女, an 1814 woodblock print depicting an octopus performing cunnilingus on a nude Japanese woman, that was posted on the wall of Jerry Saltz, the famed New York Magazine art critic and Bravo TV judge for the popular Work of Art reality show.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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JT Morrow For The Wall Street Journal with respects to Katsushika Hokusai It wasn't the first time that the writer, politician and current governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, had put his foot in his mouth.
Japan's Shattered Mirror Ian Buruma 2011
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Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, first publication: between 1826 and 1833, this edition: later, color woodblock print, Library of Congress, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Jane Chafin: Short Takes: Hokusai's Great Wave; Yayoi Kusama's Dots; a Low-Tech iPad Jane Chafin 2011
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The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849 is best known for his late-in-life nature prints, in particular his woodblock views of Mount Fuji.
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Particularly illuminating is her account of 19th-century Western reactions to Katsushika Hokusai 's erotic woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman' s Wife, "in which two octopi pleasure a naked woman with their tentacles.
A Haunting Woman Roland Kelts 2010
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