书名：Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road /  歌川广重：风景之路

作者：Alfred Haft

出版：The British Museum，2025

装帧：精装，224页

语种：英语

尺寸：24.8*28.4 cm

《歌川广重：风景之路》是大英博物馆同名展览的配套书籍，该书探索了这位艺术家在其诸多著名风景画系列中的关键作品。

在长达四十余年的职业生涯中，多产的浮世绘画师歌川广重（Utagawa Hiroshige，1797–1858）创作了数千幅风景与自然版画、数百幅为武士精英阶层绘制的画作，以及数十本插图书籍。他的作品深受社会各阶层的喜爱。尽管他的一些风景版画，如《神原——暮雪》和《大桥骤雨》，是日本艺术的知名范例，但他作品的全部风貌却鲜为人知。

广重出身于武士家庭，但他跨越了社会界限，全身心投入到描绘民间习俗与周围世界之中。他的作品以一种温和优雅、端庄得体的气息著称，这或许源于他沉稳的性格。在动荡不安的日常生活与变幻莫测的时代中，他平静的艺术视野为同时代的人提供了慰藉。作为一名伟大的色彩大师，他因在旅行体验中捕捉到细腻的抒情之美，以及人与自然之间的紧密联系而脱颖而出。

这本图文并茂的新书，精选了来自顶尖私人收藏的作品，以及大英博物馆卓越的日本艺术藏品和其他主要收藏中广重及其他艺术家的作品，以此向世界上最杰出的艺术家之一致敬。

Hiroshige: artist of the open road is the accompanying book to the British Museum exhibition of the same title, exploring the artist’s key works from his many celebrated landscape series.

Over a career spanning four decades, the prolific Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) produced thousands of landscape and nature prints, hundreds of paintings commissioned by the samurai elite, as well as dozens of illustrated books. His work appealed to every stratum of society. While some of his landscape prints, such as Kanbara – Evening Snow and Sudden Shower over ōhashi and Atake, are well-known examples of Japanese art, the full range of his output is less familiar.

Hiroshige came from a samurai family, but he crossed social boundaries and devoted himself to depicting popular customs and the world around him. His work is distinguished by an air of gentle grace and decorum, perhaps arising from his steady temperament. His calm artistic vision sustained his contemporaries through the uncertainties of daily life and changing times. A great colourist, he stands out for discovering a subtle lyricism in the experience of travel, and a bond between people and the natural world.

Featuring highlights from leading private collections, alongside works by Hiroshige and other artists from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Japanese art and from other major collections, this lavishly illustrated new publication celebrates one of the world’s most accomplished artists.