这本令人愉悦的描绘19世纪日本的自然美景的版画精选集对这个国家最受爱戴的画家做了一次的丰富多彩介绍。日本画家北斋在他的下半生花费了大量精力为他看到的几乎所有事物创作素描和油画，而这本书着重介绍了他70多岁时最富有成果的时期之一。这本书展示了这位艺术家惊人的作品全集中的五十幅作品。它包括来自他**的木版画系列的精选作品，《富士山的三十六幅风景图》，其中包括《海浪中的洞穴》，《山顶下的淋浴》和《南风在清晨的黎明》。还展示了鲜花，瀑布，桥梁，鸟类和鱼类的图像，显示出北斋艺术作品独特而又充满激情的品质。研究这位画家作品的专家Matthi Forrer对北斋的生活和技术发表了富有启发性的评论，洞悉了他在世界各地的经久不衰的知名度。

Located somewhere between Pop Art and Realism, Gerhard Richter's abstract works are the subject of this unique book that brings together 80 works from collections worldwide.

Trained in the 1950s as a realistic painter, by the mid-1970s Gerhard Richter began to evolve into a more abstract artist. His large, colorful paintings from that time exposed the process of painting as much as its creative aims. Focusing solely on Richter's abstract work, this book features 80 works on canvas that represent the full range of the artist's experiments away from representational painting. It includes his early works, which called painting itself into question and incorporated personal documents and newspaper images. Also examined here are Richter's series of gray paintings from the 1970s--a reaffirmation of artistic purity; his "Inpainting" series, which made the application of paint and brushstrokes themselves the subject; his color chart paintings, which both neutralize and glorify painting's most emotionally charged element: color. Also included are his later works in which he applied paint with a brush, scraper, and palette knife. Taken as a whole, these brilliant works reveal an artist consistently in dialogue with his work, and with the overarching artistic trends of the time.