Hokusai's Great Wave Enters the Anthropocene

Katsushika Hokusai's 1829 woodblock print, "Under the Wave off Kanagawa," is the world's most iconic portrait of ocean waves. It has been reproduced, quoted, and repurposed over the last two centuries in a widening circle of representations of the unruly, powerful sea. Today'...

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Main Author: Helmreich, Stefan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press, 2018-04-06T19:23:19Z.
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