Research Catalog

Title

• Kikuji Kawada : the last cosmology = 川田喜久治 : ラスト。コスモロジー.
• Kikuji Kawada : the last cosmology = Kawada Kikuji : rasuto kosumorojī.

Author

• 川田喜久治, 1933-
• Kawada, Kikuji, 1933-

Publication

• [London?] : MACK, [2015]
• [Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany] : Printed by DZA.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Description

86 unnumbered pages : 66 illustrations; 33 cm

Summary

"Astrology, once a scholarly tradition, binds astronomical phenomena to events of the human world. 'The last cosmology' reveals Kikuji Kawada's preoccupation with the cosmos, and his fleeting empathy for the abating custom of divination. Inspired by the apocalyptic sky-scapes of the painter Emil Nolde, Kawada photographed abnormal and calamitous weather conditions: gales that configure coiling cloud-patterns, electrical storms, or rain striking glass. Captured between 1980 and 2000, the work is part of 'The catastrophe trilogy,' a chronicle which ties together the dramas of the skies with the end of two historical eras on earth: the Showa Era in Japan, ending with the death of the Emperor in 1989, and 20th century's close. Kawada says, 'I imagine the era and myself as an implicitly intermingling catastrophe ... I want to spy on the depths of a multihued heart that is like a Karman vortex'"--Publisher's Web site, viewed July 29, 2015.

Alternative Title

• 川田喜久治 : ラスト。コスモロジー
• Kawada Kikuji : rasuto kosumorojī
• ラスト。コスモロジー
• Rasuto kosumorojī
• Last cosmology

Subject

• Kawada, Kikuji, 1933-
• Solar eclipses > Pictorial works
• Sky > Pictorial works
• Planets > Pictorial works
• Astronomical photography
• Nature photography
• Photography, Artistic

Note

• Title from covers (English on front cover, Japanese on back cover).
• Contains 56 full-page and 10 double-page tritone reproductions of black and white photographs. Two images on 1 folded leaf; 10 blank pages.
• Artist's essay has title: The last cosmology 1980-2000.
• Another selection from Kawada's "Last cosmology" series of photographs was published under title: The last cosmology : photographs / Kawada Kikuji = ラスト。コスモロジー / 川田喜久治写真集. 東京 : 491, 1995.
• Another selection from Kawada's "Last cosmology" series of photographs was published under title: The last cosmology : photographs / Kawada Kikuji = Rasuto kosumorojī / Kawada Kikuji shashinshū. Tōkyō : 491, 1995.

Language (note)

• Artist's essay and list of plates in English (inside front cover) and Japanese (inside back cover). Without other textual content.

Binding (note)

• Issued in illustrated stiff paper covers.

Call Number

MFX+ (Kawada) 15-3054

ISBN

• 9781910164235
• 1910164232

OCLC

904541452

Author

Kawada, Kikuji, 1933- photographer.

Alternate Script for Author

川田喜久治, 1933- photographer.

Title

Kikuji Kawada : the last cosmology = Kawada Kikuji : rasuto kosumorojī.

Alternate Script for Title

Kikuji Kawada : the last cosmology = 川田喜久治 : ラスト。コスモロジー.

Publisher

[London?] : MACK, [2015]

Manufacturer

[Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany] : Printed by DZA.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Alternate Script for Note

Another selection from Kawada's "Last cosmology" series of photographs was published under title: The last cosmology : photographs / Kawada Kikuji = ラスト。コスモロジー / 川田喜久治写真集. 東京 : 491, 1995.

Language

Artist's essay and list of plates in English (inside front cover) and Japanese (inside back cover). Without other textual content.

Binding

Issued in illustrated stiff paper covers.

Alternate Script for Subject

川田喜久治, 1933-

Added Author

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Research Call Number

MFX+ (Kawada) 15-3054