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9 reviews
Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, ...

Rizzoli, 2007

I love it!
I had to get this book after going to the Brooklyn museum exhibit. The price was incredible there and I was happily surprised to find it on Amazo nfor much cheaper! Thanks... great condition and speedy delivery

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture

5 reviews

Yale University Press, 2005

Big Bang, Little Boy, Art Explosion
Here's an email I sent to a friend about the Little Boy exhibition and this book: I spent Friday afternoon at the Japan Society viewing the Little Boy exhibition, curated by Takashi Murakami - and I purchased the handsome exhibit catalogue, Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture (edited by Murakami, with commentary and essays in English and Japanese). The exhibition title, of ...

My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation

2 reviews
Jeff Fleming, Takashi Murakami, ...

Independent Curators International, New York, 2001

3/5
The synergy between Japanese anime and American pop culture is explored in this book, a companion piece to the traveling exhibition currently in installation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. My Reality examines the role of anime on modern art; in particular, there's a technology-friendly bent to anime, which the book asserts has been assimilated in the technique of "serious" artists in both ...

Japanese Experience: Inevitable, The (In the Floating World: Slash with a Knife, 1999)

6 reviews
Gregor Jansen, Takashi Murakami, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003

Surely one must pay attention...
This is a fantastic catalogue of an important exhibition held in Kraichtal, Germany in 2002. The curator was Margrit Brehm. So, do not be mislead: this is not a Murakami-curated exhibition, unlike the current Japan Society show entitled "Little Boy." (This book does contain works by Murakami and others of the Kaikai Kiki alongside other important contemporary figures). Also important ...

Superflat

4 reviews
Takashi Murakami

Madora Shuppan,Japan, 2000

Postmodernism at its finest...
Murakami's "Superflat" is an essay (in both visual and verbal terms) in which he ties current, commercially viable art production (manga, anime, and Neo Pop) to its roots in the late Edo period paintings of artists like Ito Jakuchu and Katsushika Hokusai. He espouses the aesthetic similarities (the interest in decoration and the emphasis on the flatness of the picture plane) as well as the ...

00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

1 review
Takashi Murakami, Lari Pittman, ...

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2002

Changing the Meaning of Drawing
This fabulous collction of virtually every one of the most vital contemporary artist is, simply put, a must. The talent and diversity of these works are astounding and envigorating. The title "Drawing" conjures up images of simple sketches, pencil works and other trite mediums of drawing. However, these works prove that drawing, the element of art that is the product of the artist's mind ...

Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?

2 reviews
Takashi Murakami

Hiropon Factory, 2005

The inside scoop...
This text (and it is predominantly text) is an engaging look at the inner workings of Murakami's Kaikai Kiki (formerly the Hiropon Factory). With the establishment of his factory and artist collective, Murakami refernces the workshop tradition of artmaking that goes back thousands of years (specifically to pre-Renaissance Italy). In this book one can see and read about the kind of excruciating ...

Monument To Now
Takashi Murakami, Wolfgang Tillmans, ...

Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004

"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 ...

Keba Keba
Takashi Murakami

Hiropon Factory,Japan, 2004

Form Follows Fiction
Amy Adler, Takashi Murakami, ...

Charta, 2002

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 ...

Funny Cuts
Takashi Murakami, Kassandra Nakas, ...

Kerber, 2005

As its point of departure,Funny Cuts takes, as its point of departure, Pop Art's revolutionary referencing of comics and concludes with the most current trends in contemporary art, reflecting in many diverse ways its dialogue with the commercial and trivial picture worlds of comics and cartoons. Pop Art artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were ground-breaking in their provocative confrontation with high and low art using motifs and ...

Tokyo Girls Bravo (BOX SET)
Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, ...

Hiropon Japan, 1999

This box set is a 1999 Japanese import. It contains a paperback book, 17 postcards, and 3 Tokyo flyers. It comes in a cardboard box with the label shown. The paperback is different from the "Tokyo Girls Bravo" book. The postcards are art work by Aoshima, Takano, Murakami and others Hiropon stars. Scarce.

Louis Vuitton (March 2006 Bag Catalogue)

Louis Vuitton Malletier, 2006

Tokyo Girls Bravo
Takashi Murakami

Kaikai Kiki, 1993

Twisted: Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting
Takashi Murakami, Jan Debbaut, ...

NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2001

The publication of Twisted: Urban and visionary landscapes in contemporary paintingcoincides with the exhibition of the same name, and features the work of fifteen young, international painters. These artists are defined by the figurative visual language they use, a language that does not refer to what we might normally think of as physical reality, but instead looks to the reality manifest in video and computer games, television, film, ...

Supernova: Art of the 1990s From the Logan Collection
Takashi Murakami, Katy Siegel, ...

D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004

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 ...

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