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Ay-Ō : happy rainbow hell
- Title
- Ay-Ō : happy rainbow hell / Kit Brooks.
- Author
- Brooks, Kit (Writer on Japanese art)
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, [2023]
- ©2023
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| Text | Use in library | NE773.A96 A4 2023g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 158 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm
- Summary
- "Ay-Ō Happy Rainbow Hell will accompany an exhibition of works of art by Japanese artist Ay-Ō, scheduled to open in the National Museum of Asian Art's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on March 25, 2023 and close on September 10, 2023. Known as "The Rainbow Artist," Ay-Ō (b. 1931) is internationally regarded for his prismatic silkscreen prints and for covering a kaleidoscopic range of subjects from the human body to the natural world to glistening machinery. The artist's rainbow aesthetic is a fixation he has maintained-and by his admission, has been compelled to produce-for over six decades, with a focus on silkscreen prints since the 1970s. The exhibition Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell will feature approximately eighty works and will be the first solo show dedicated to a representative display of Ay-Ō's works in a major US museum. Ay-Ō Happy Rainbow Hell, the accompanying fully illustrated catalogue, will be the first monographic publication on Ay-Ō for an English-speaking audience. The publication provides an essay describing the artist's biography and significance as well as detailed entries for many of the works in the exhibition. The catalogue also includes a message from the artist and an essay from Ay-Ō's longtime printer Sukeda Kenryō exploring how Ay-Ō's silkscreens push the medium to its limits, taking from three months to up to a year to complete"--
- Alternative Title
- Happy rainbow hell
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, March 25-September 10, 2023.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150 - 153) and index.
- Contents
- Printing Ay-Ō's work has been the most incredible career / Sukeda Kenryō -- Ay-Ō's happy rainbow hell / Kit Brooks.
- Call Number
- NE773.A96
- ISBN
- 9781588347411
- 1588347419
- LCCN
- 2022038226
- OCLC
- 1348178500
- on1348178500
- SCSB-14495644
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries