Hokusai and Contemporary Art: Pop Art, Superflat, and Beyond

Talk delivered by Kendall deBoer, curatorial assistant, Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Image by Yoshitomo Nara

An iconoic artwork The Great Wav by Hokusai, depicting an offshore wave, turned on its side. Next to it is a version that has been reworked to add an arm and a knife, stabbing. The image makes the viewer consider the work in a different light.
Ben Harris-Roxas @ben_hr