Noboyushi Araki, Araki Meets Hokusai

First edition, published by Kehrer Verlag, 2009. A brilliant pictorial dialogues between famed Japanese artists Noboyushi Araki and Katsushika Hokusai, this book bridges the gap between centuries of Japanese artistic production. Combining classical Japanese woodcarvings from the Thun collection, with provocative sexual material of Araki, allowing for subtle allusions to erotic desire and sexuality within Hokusai’s woodcuts to shine through. This book showcases each artist’s work in separately designed books inside one slipcase. Text in German and English.