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A Long Journey : The Works of Toshiko Okanoue

A Long Journey : The Works of Toshiko Okanoue

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Author/Artist

Toshiko Okanoue

Publisher

Kawadeshobo Shinsha

Year

2015

Condition

Hardcover, Cover, Obi, Japanese

EXCELLENT (Cover and obi are a little scuffed, but fair condition)

Size (cm)

26 x 19 x 2

About

Long-awaited publication of the first domestic collection of works by the visionary photo collage artist in more than half a century!
This definitive edition includes 77 self-selected works and a list of all his works!

The long-awaited publication of the first domestic collection of works by Yoshiko Okanoue, who in the 1950s produced a series of photo collages that were described by Shuzo Takiguchi as "a modern version of Alice in Wonderland!

The day her fingers flap in new anticipation and anxiety at her birth.
Sex flying over the sea, Leda in anguish, and the trap of nostalgia. ......
Though fresh voices echoed in the blue air. (omitted).
The pain of the thorns that broke the rose
Turned into my only greeting to them.
I am dismayed by the bitterness of the blooming woman, as if she accused me of sowing the seeds of a fruitless flower.
But their attire is too gaudy for my deeply wrinkled palms,
As I turn away, they whisper proudly.
We are free.

(From "Collage of Me and Myself," 1953)

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