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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue

Various Artists

$30.92

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue (Special edition)

Various Artists

$77.30

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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The Beginning Place

$27.05

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Published on the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara’s major solo exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art, “The Beginning Place” guides readers through the career of this exceptional Japanese artist. Beginning with one of Nara’s earliest oil paintings (discarded as ‘unwanted work’ and discov...

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New Photographic Objects

Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO

$54.11

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This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “New Photographic Objects” catalogue e...

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De-porned Again

$17.01

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Japanese artist DokiDoki Club is back with a second series of “de-porned” images. With the power of imagination, a black marker, humor and a touch of shamelessness, DokiDoki Club transforms soft pornographic photographs into funny and slightly less pornographic artworks. Though und...

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HARUMI GALS (B)

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

$37.10

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“Harumi Gals” collects the iconic series of pin-up drawings created by Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi since the 1970s. The art became symbolic of changes of the role of the woman in Japanese society and enjoys high critical esteem, partly due to its nature as a pin-up series crea...

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OKUSOKU VELOCITY OF MEMORY

$43.29

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This extensive exhibition catalogue accompanied Shinro Ohtake’s show “Okusoku” at the Takamatsu Art Museum in summer 2013. The exhibition focused on seven separate themes and series—“Distant Views of Memories,” “Afterimages: Inner Exposures,” Africa: Reverberating Memories, “Japane...

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NEW NEW

$21.64

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Psychedelic Death Pop

Keiichi TANAAMI

$23.19

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“Psychedelic Death Pop” is a large-format, 40-page strong collection of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami’s recent visual works. Two large stickers form part of the book, which was published together with “Amulet of the Tapir” to accompany Tanaami’s 2017 exhibition at Nanzuka Gallery.

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ASSEMBLE_Community Fantasy and Future

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Assemble is an informal collective formed in 2009 by Japanese artist Takayo Iida. This art book provides an overview of the works created by the group through photographs of their art as well as analytical essays, i.a. Ryuji Fujimura.

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Daisuke Ohba

$17.90

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A collection of paintings and images created by Japanese artist Daisuke Ohba, as well as installation views from several of his shows. In his art, Ohba combines natural phenomena (mountains, forests, skies) and abstract shapes and forms. The special iridescent pearl paint that he u...

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Nobuko Tsuchiya

Nobuko TSUCHIYA

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Art book featuring photography of London-based Japanese artist Nobuko Tsuchiya's sculptures and installations. The book includes essays by Reiko Tsubaki, Antoine de Galbert and Melanie Bouteloup.

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Land and Sea 1970

Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI

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Holy Cow

$19.32

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This catalogue was published to accompany the March 2017 exhibition “Holy Cow” at Taka Ishii Gallery. The book reproduces Tomoo Gokita’s black-and-white gouache paintings featuring a variety of surreal, sometimes disturbing motifs and sizes. In addition to the works themselves, the...

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Contact High Zine Issue 4: Into the Parallel

Yusuke YAMATANI, Mari KATAYAMA, Motohiko HASUI, Hideki MAKIGUCHI, RYU Ika, Yoko KUSANO, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Yoshirotten, Various Artists

$108.21

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Japanese independent magazine Contact High Zine presents its fourth issue, titled “Into The Parallel.” Featuring solo and collaborative works by artists such as Yoshirotten, Mari Katayama, Hideki Machiguchi, Kota Nakazono, Ohiana, Henry Darger, Yoko Kusano, Tsutomu Ono and many mor...

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Yoshitomo Nara：Self-selected Works―Paintings

$29.37

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Yoshitomo Nara was born in1959, in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture. In 1987, he completed the master’s program at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. In1988,he taraveled to Germany and enrolled in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,where he studied and received his Meisterschüler ...

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Infinity Mirrors

$68.51

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“Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors”, originally published in conjunction with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 2017 exhibition of the same name, explores the Japanese artist’s most spectacular and well-known series, and provides a comprehensive overview of her life and her wo...

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A Work of Art Vinyl - Ultimate Record Covers Tomoo Gokita 07, 08, 09

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This set features volumes 7, 8 and 9 of the magazine “A Work of Art Vinyl – Ultimate Record Covers” The three volumes cover almost all record covers created by the Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita. In addition to more than 200 works for artists such as Metafive, Towa Tei, Kahimi Karie ...