Kai itoi (6 risultati)

Hardcover. First edition. Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket with one half-inch closed tear and a crease to the front flap, otherwise fine. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "Requiem for the Twentieth Century shows historical twentieth-century figures, from Che Guevara to Mao Tsedong, from Chaplin's Hitler to Vladimir Lenin, caught in moments of fatigue and distress. Among them we find Yukio Mishima--Morimura's own alter ego--who, at the suicidal cry of "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! Long Live Art!" expressed the artist's ultimate sacrifice to art." A catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice, June 8 - October 8, 2007. Photographs and "Dictator Speech" by Yasumasa Morimura; essays by Kai Itoi, Filippo Maggia, and Angela Vettese. 80 pages; color and b&w plates throughout; 9.75 x 11.25 inches. Checklist, biography, bibliography. Text in English.…

Condizione: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 28 (weekend SALE item)* 80 pp, hardcover, new in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover with dustjacket, 80 pages; in English; very good condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Tankobon Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. Japanese language. 8.03x5.75x0.24 inches. In Stock.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: Nuevo. Condizione sovraccoperta: Como Nuevo. Yasumara Morimura irrumpió en la escena artística internacional en los años ochenta con su serie de Historia del Arte, reconstrucciones asistidas por ordenador de grandes pinturas occidentales en las que inyectaba su propio rostro en las caras de los sujetos originales de las obras. Aquí Morimura reinterpreta grandes iconos del siglo XX, algunas de cuyas imágenes más célebres se han convertido en iconos para generaciones enteras. Sujetos como Mao, el Che Guevara, el cómico Hitler retratado por Charlie Chaplin, el histriónico Einstein, Mishima u Oswald nos invitan a reflexionar ahora sobre el significado de su experiencia y el peso de su herencia: política, cultural y especialmente social.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Yasumasa Morimura burst onto the international art scene in the eighties with his "Art History" series, computer-aided reconstructions of great Western paintings in which Morimura injected his own visage onto the faces of the worksâ original subjects. He explored some of the central themes of art, in particular the practice of painting, providing first-person reinterpretations of works by famous European artists such as Velazquez, Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Monet. In this book, Maggia presents Morimuraâs interperatation of a collection of key figures from the twentieth-centuryâ"some of their most celebrated images that have become icons for entire generations. Subjects such as Mao, Che Guevara, the comic Hitler portrayed by Charlie Chaplin, the histrionic Einstein, Mishima or Oswald all invite us to reflect now on the significance of their experience and the weight of their heritage: politically, culturally and especially socially. Including an interview with the photographer, Requiem for the XX Century is a beautiful and thought-provoking book sure to attract the attention not just of art and photography afficionados, but of the general public as well.…