Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century, publicly staged his own death after he and four other companions stormed the ministry of defense in Tokyo in a bizarre, abortive coup. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature and an LGBT pioneer, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His genius notwithstanding, his reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event are never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, an extended photo essay on the death of the Japanese 'everyman.' With Mishima as leading man, he and Shinoyama set about to record the 'deaths' of a number of men. In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, all invariably shot with an elaborate mise-en-scene, a parade of men, including a gymnast, a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, a soldier and towards the very end, an avatar of the author himself are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylised images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art, one without equal in history. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates, and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance, and the role of artist as actor, provocateur and revolutionary. In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mushima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime and often shocking visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in 1970. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780847868698

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Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man

Shinoyama, Kishin

Editore: Rizzoli (2020)

ISBN 10: 0847868699 ISBN 13: 9780847868698

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Yukio Mishima

Kishin Shinoyama (photographer), Yukio Mishima (creator), Tadanori Yokoo (writer of added commentary), Linda Hoaglund (writer of foreword), Ian Luna (editor)

Editore: Rizzoli 2020-09-29, New York (2020)

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Descrizione libro hardback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG|JPN. Codice articolo 9780847868698

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