Secret Doll Underground: Japanese Surrealist Dolls From The Yaso Collection, Tokyo (Japanese Art Perspectives)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 184068321X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He also curates the Parabolica-Bis gallery in Tokyo. Yuichi Konno is the editor of Yaso, an independent arts and culture publication founded in 1979
Disturbing yes. Compelling yes. Disturbing yes. Compelling yes. I find inspiration in the twisted dolls found in this book. The dolls bring me back to images from The Brothers Quay and Hans Bellmer. These images are for adults, and the weak of stomach should avoid this book. But it your tastes extend beyond the benign, generic and downright dull, I would encourage readers to explore this book.. Gruesome & Brutal Since this book didn't offer a "preview" function, I had to see a copy to understand what they meant by "avant-garde Japanese doll-making," and it wasn't a pretty sight. The description of the book doesn't telegraph how gruesome these dolls are -- naked child dolls in states of mutilation, dismemberment, decay, or death -- so I understand now why there wouldn't
Directly inspired by the Surrealist Doll constructed by Hans Bellmer in 1932, Simon Yotsuya created a series of ball-jointed, life-sized dolls which featured in his ground-breaking "Eve In The Past And The Future” exhibition in Tokyo, in 1973. Yuichi Konno is the editor of Yaso, an independent arts and culture publication founded in 1979. The modern era of underground doll-making in Japan began in the late 1960s, with the experiments of Simon Yotsuya and Nori Doi. It also includes Konno's introductory history of the underground doll in Japan. SECRET DOLL UNDERGROUND, presented by Yuichi Konno, features dolls by fifteen artists, from Simon Yotsuya onwards, with over 80 full-sized colour photographs never before published outside Japan. Simon Yotsuya's work inspired a new wave of avant-garde Japanese doll-making, headed by artists such as Ryo Yoshida and Katan Amano, which has continued to flourish to the present day. Japanese Art Perspectives is a new illustrated book series on Japanese art and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
He also curates the Parabolica-Bis gallery in Tokyo. . About the Author Yuichi Konno is the editor of Yaso, an independent arts and culture publication founded in 1979