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Real Estate Opportunities

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“Real Estate Opportunities” continues Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s homage series to the influential American artist Ed Ruscha, following similar photobooks by Homma such as “Every Building on the Ginza Street”, “Royal Road Test”, “Babycakes”, and “Twenty-Six Gasoline Stati...

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Psychedelic Death Pop

Keiichi TANAAMI

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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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New Photographic Objects

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

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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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Yoshitomo Nara：Self-selected Works―Paintings

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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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WERK Magazine No. 29

Yoshirotten, WING Shya

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Issue number 29 of the influential Singapore-based “Werk Magazine” is dedicated to Japanese visual artist Yoshirotten, with Yoshirotten’s reinterpretations, remixes and reworkings of photographs from Daido Moriyama’s “New Shinjuku” series, a collaboration with Hong Kong photographe...

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HARUMI GALS (B)

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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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Yoshitomo Nara

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Published to accompany the large-scale exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara’s works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 2021–January 2022), this catalogue provides an in-depth look at each period of Nara’s career. Primarily known for his paintings of wide-eyed characters, Yoshit...

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On Kurosawa: A Tribute to the Master Director

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“Why Kurosawa? Because his best work is for the ages; like an unscaled mountain range, it inspires, intimidates and challenges. Because he encapsulates both the history of cinema and the history of modern Japan. Because he changed my life.” Few artists have bequeathed the world an ...

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Oh! Tengoku Remixed

Tomoo GOKITA

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This book – published as part of the Neotokyozine project – presents a remix of Tomoo Gokita’s “Oh Tengoku” homage to Japanese gag manga legend Fujio Akatsuka. With much humor, boldness and freedom, Gokita approaches and samples Akatsuka’s style, characters, approach and heritage i...

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THERIACA Yarn, Rope, Spaghetti

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“Just like paint, yarn is a tool for expression. No rules; You can use it however you want. You can knit whatever you like. Yarn, rope, spaghetti, paper. Anything can become the weaving material. Erasers, lemon nets, Sudoku. Anything can be knit into clothes.” ― from the artist’s s...

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NAKAJO

Masayoshi NAKAJO

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The 640-page strong “Nakajo” covers almost the entire lifework of legendary Japanese graphic designer Masayoshi Nakajo (1933–2021) from the 1960s to his final works in 2021. Through his brilliant design work for influential companies and magazines, products, brands and public insti...

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HARUMI GALS (A)

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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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Situated Latency

Kishio SUGA

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Kishio Suga is one of the artists who represent an art movement rose in around 1970, called Mono-ha (School of Things). In this exhibition catalogue, Suga’s works produced in the 1970s, when his concept is radically embodied in his works, are mainly published in color, while 48 yea...

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Amulet of the Tapir

Keiichi TANAAMI

$227.40

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Keiichi Tanaami’s belief in the “book as artwork” idea is once again brilliantly expressed with “Amulet of the Tapir”, a 400-page strong collection of Tanaami’s graphic art. Psychedelia-inspired styles and comic elements feature heavily in Tanaami’s artworks, with human faces – oft...

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Maria Taniguchi

Maria TANIGUCHI

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This catalogue was published on occasion of the 2017 exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo. The book reproduces the brick paintings that form the foundation of Taniguchi’s work as well as exhibition space and the sculptures which are a reflection, perhaps refraction, of Taniguc...

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ANTICAMERA (OF THE EYE)

Hanako MURAKAMI

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OKUSOKU VELOCITY OF MEMORY

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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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Samiro Yunoki - life・LIFE (A)

Samiro YUNOKI, Taro HIRANO

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All four covers available “Samiro Yunoki – life LIFE,” published on occasion of the same-titled exhibition at Play! Museum in Tachikawa, Japan, is a collection of numerous works by legendary Japanese folk artist Samiro Yunoki, whose practice spans from textile dyeing to prints, pai...

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Samiro Yunoki - life・LIFE (D)

Samiro YUNOKI, Taro HIRANO

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All four covers available “Samiro Yunoki – life LIFE,” published on occasion of the same-titled exhibition at Play! Museum in Tachikawa, Japan, is a collection of numerous works by legendary Japanese folk artist Samiro Yunoki, whose practice spans from textile dyeing to prints, pai...

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Atsushi Saga

Atsushi SAGA

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Art book featuring images of several of Japanese artist Atsushi Saga's works and exhibition views as well as two essays by Fumio Nanjo (director of the Mori Art Museum) and Eriko Kimura (curator of the Yokohama Museum of Art).