The Multi-centered Modernities of Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”

Christine Guth, Royal College of Art, London

The following podcast is of a talk given on May 31, 2010. It was part of the lecture series “Multi-Centred Modernisms—Reconfiguring Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries,” which was organised by research project D13 Multi-Centred Modernisms at the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.”

References:

Christine Guth, “The Local and the Global: Hokusai’s Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design,” Design Issues 28, no. 2. 16–29.

Christine Guth, “Hokusai’s Great Waves in Nineteenth-century Japanese Visual Culture,” The Art Bulletin Vol. 93, no.1. 468–486.