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Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami is one of contemporary art’s most innovative and important figures. Drawing from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, Murakami takes the contemporary art trend of mixing high and low to an unprecedented level (critics call him the new Warhol), producing original paintings and sculptures as well as mass-produced consumer objects such...more
Hardcover, 376 pages
Published
October 23rd 2007
by Rizzoli
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Jul 01, 2008
Annette
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People who like cute things that could kill you
I love Murakami's art. The photos of his works in this book are 5 stars.
Yet the text itself is redundant and pedantic. The chapters are written by a handful of art experts. The editor of the book neglected to successfully edit out redundancies so the book spends a lot of time rehashing the capitalist/materialist/Warhol-esque/ themes prevalent through Murakami's work. Though the book did elucidate an important theme of permanent Japanese childhood/impotence because of the post WWII reliance on t...more
Yet the text itself is redundant and pedantic. The chapters are written by a handful of art experts. The editor of the book neglected to successfully edit out redundancies so the book spends a lot of time rehashing the capitalist/materialist/Warhol-esque/ themes prevalent through Murakami's work. Though the book did elucidate an important theme of permanent Japanese childhood/impotence because of the post WWII reliance on t...more
I love Murakami and I love this Book! I'm lucky because I've borrowed it from my local library- I've fallen in love with this book. Murakami!!!
this book doesn't compare to seeing his work in person, but this is a damn good collection (and the most comprehensive to date) of murakami's career. absolutely mind-blowing and the more commercial his work becomes, the more i like it strangely enough. i was fortunate enough to see it in on display at the brooklyn museum of art, and it was the best $10 i've ever spent. i would have paid $100. no joke.
kanye west knows what time it is.
Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan (2002) is a painting of that time when Dali & Miyazaki stayed up way too late eating leftover desserts and playing katamari damacy. Super Nova (1999) is when the smurf village (but not the smurfs themselves) tunes in, turns on and drops way out. oh yeah, it's phenomenal stuff.
Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan (2002) is a painting of that time when Dali & Miyazaki stayed up way too late eating leftover desserts and playing katamari damacy. Super Nova (1999) is when the smurf village (but not the smurfs themselves) tunes in, turns on and drops way out. oh yeah, it's phenomenal stuff.
There must be other monographs on this artist, but I can't imagine one as comprehensive. Murakami is one of my favorite contemporary artists and must be the most famous contemporary Japanese artist right now. This is an incredible book for Murakami fans.
Maybe not a necessity for all painting students to own, but take a peek. In addition to being full of delightful reproductions, some of the essays preceding the images explore very interesting concepts.
Love him or hate him, the Warhol of the East is hot, hot, hot. Japanese pop culture+commerce=a marriage made in post-post modern heaven.
Sep 16, 2008
Bob
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who hasn't been blown away with visuals
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Found it on my journey.
It's wonderful getting behind the brush of Murakami; my favorite visual artists of all time. His work speaks for itself. I am DOB?
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