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Murakami»rank: 18579by: Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf
: :Takashi Murakami is one of contemporary art’s most innovative and important figures. Drawing from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, Murakami takes the contemporary art trend of mixing high and low to an unprecedented level (critics call him the new Warhol), producing original paintings and sculptures as well as mass-produced consumer objects such as toys, books, and most famously, a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. A committed supporter and spokesperson for Japanese artists and a powerful commentator on postwar culture and society, Murakami has organized influential exhibitions of Japanese art as well as a biannual art fair in Tokyo. Murakami has positioned himself as a new type of artist ... |
Superflat (Straight Up Japanese Bad Asses)»rank: 616921by: Takashi Murakami
: :Takashi Murakami is one of contemporary art’s most innovative and important figures. Drawing from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, Murakami takes the contemporary art trend of mixing high and low to an unprecedented level (critics call him the new Warhol), producing original paintings and sculptures as well as mass-produced consumer objects such as toys, books, and most famously, a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. A committed supporter and spokesperson for Japanese artists and a powerful commentator on postwar culture and society, Murakami has organized influential exhibitions of Japanese art as well as a biannual art fair in Tokyo. Murakami has positioned himself as a new type of artist ... |
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Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture»rank: 480559from: Yale University Press
: :Little Boy examines the culture of postwar Japan through its arts and popular visual media. Focusing on the youth-driven phenomenon of otaku (roughly translated as 'geek culture' or 'pop cult fanaticism'), Takashi Murakami and a notable group of contributors explore the complex historical influences that shape Japanese contemporary art and its distinct graphic languages. The book's title, Little Boy, is a reference to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, thus clearly locating the birth of these new cultural forms in the trauma and generational aftershock of the atomic bomb. This generously illustrated book showcases the work of key otaku artists and designers, many of whom are cult celebrities in Japan, ... |
Japanese Experience: Inevitable, The (In the Floating World: Slash with a Knife, 1999)»rank: 204633by: Gregor Jansen, Takashi Murakami, Jun Hasegawa, Hiropon, Shintaro Miyake, Aya Takano, Yoshitomo Nara
: :At first sight, it appears brand new, pure Tokyo pop. But The Japanese Experience: Inevitable reveals far more than the successful cloning of morphed manga motifs onto stretched canvas and museum walls. It represents eight positions in contemporary Japanese art and scrutinizes their complex visual vocabulary, noting references to Japanese and Western art traditions as frequently as the borrowing of mass culture motifs from the realms of manga and anime. Takashi Murakami's MR. DOB questions the place of contemporary art in our global society; Aya Takano's glowing watercolors combine Japanese sensitivity, issues of female identity, and sci-fi; Masahiko Kuwahara's mutant animals provide shades of softness and mysterious openness, and Yoshitomo Nara's reworking ... |
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My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation»rank: 966209by: Jeff Fleming, Takashi Murakami, Matthew Benedict, Lee Bul, Taro Chiezo, James Esber, Inka Essenhigh, Masakatu Inamoto, Mika Kato, Micha Klein, Miltos Manetas, Richard Patterson, Momoyo Torimitsu, Charlie White, Kenji Yanobe, Paul McCarthy, Yoshitomo Nara
: :Japanese animation, or anime, which has attained cult status among young people globally during the past several decades, is increasingly breaking into the mainstream. My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, investigates the influence of this form of pop culture on today's art in Japan, other Asian countries, and the West. |
Monument To Now»rank: 505494by: Takashi Murakami, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alison Gingeras, Chris Ofili, Gillian Wearing, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Shirin Neshat, Kiki Smith, Chen Zhen, Ashley Bickerton
: :'Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister, the hardcover edition features a three-dimensional monument affixed to the front cover; the paperback retains some trace of the monument, perhaps a footprint of the monument on the front cover, a pop-up monument inside, or some other invention. The ... |
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Supernova: Art of the 1990s From the Logan Collection»rank: 1069901by: Takashi Murakami, Katy Siegel, Neal Benezra, Huan Zhang, Janine Antoni, John Currin, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Damien Hirst, Lisa Yuskavage, Katharina Fritsch, Madeleine Grynzstejn
: :su-per-no-va: n., pl. A rare celestial phenomenon involving the explosion of most of the material in a star, resulting in an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy. Given the massive shift in the West's cultural sensibility in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the current global political situation, the 1990s and its over-the-top, anything-goes art scene suddenly appear much more historical than contemporary. If we really are at the turning point that we seem to be, then we've arrived at a particularly opportune moment for reconsideration, for assessing the legacy of the decade after the frenzy has subsided. Supernova brings together a number of curators and critics--each ... |
Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?»rank: 1122787by: Takashi Murakami
: :su-per-no-va: n., pl. A rare celestial phenomenon involving the explosion of most of the material in a star, resulting in an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy. Given the massive shift in the West's cultural sensibility in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the current global political situation, the 1990s and its over-the-top, anything-goes art scene suddenly appear much more historical than contemporary. If we really are at the turning point that we seem to be, then we've arrived at a particularly opportune moment for reconsideration, for assessing the legacy of the decade after the frenzy has subsided. Supernova brings together a number of curators and critics--each ... |
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Form Follows Fiction»rank: 1207362by: Amy Adler, Takashi Murakami, Tim Noble, Chris Ofili, Sue Webster, Franz Ackermann, Toba Khedoori, Matthieu Laurette, Doug Aitken, Vanessa Beecroft, John Currin, Olafur Eliasson, Cai Guo-Qiang, Kurt Kauper, Margherita Manzelli, Gabriel Orozco, Pipilotti Rist, Ida Gianelli
: :As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum 'form follows function'; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into 'form follows fiction.' Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris ... |
Tokyo Girls Bravo»rank: 1868405by: Takashi Murakami
: :As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum 'form follows function'; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into 'form follows fiction.' Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris ... |