Research Catalog

Title

Takashi Murakami : the octopus eats its own leg / edited by Michael Darling.

Author

Murakami, Takashi, 1962-

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; New York, New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. ; Tokyo, Japan : Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Darling, Michael
• Skira (Firm : New York, N.Y.), publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution, issuing body, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
• Kaikai Kiki Co., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
• Vancouver Art Museum, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
• Chicago (Ill.)

Description

286 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

The first major U.S. monograph in ten years on Murakami is the definitive survey of the paintings of one of today s most influential artists. Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art's most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami's paintings, this book traces Murakami's career from his earliest training to his current studio practice. Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami's work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Through essays and illustrations - many previously unpublished - it explores the artist's relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address Murakami's output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history. "Takashi Murakami" is a true essential for collectors and fans alike.0Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (03.06. - 24.09.2017) / Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (02.02. - 05.06.2018) / High Museum, Atlanta, USA (10.06. - 02.09.2018).

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Art, Japanese > Japan > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Illustrated works
• Murakami, Takashi, 1962- > Criticism and interpretation
• Postmodernism > Japan > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Murakami, Takashi, 1962- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.
• Published by Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc. in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. and Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC.
• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition is curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator"--Page 286.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

ISBN

• 9780847859115
• 0847859118

OCLC

• ocn958097221
• 958097221
• SCSB-5891191

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries