Hokusai (1760-1849) is a world-famous 'ukiyo-e' artist whose sophisticated brushwork, dynamic composition, and humorous depiction of human attitudes, features, and movements reveal an extraordinary ...
British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) produced an extraordinary oeuvre marked by exquisite lines and bold use of black-an d-white contrasts. This definitive survey traces ...
Raku ware started with the first generation of the Raku family, Chojiro, during the Momoyama period in 16th-century Japan. Since that time, successive generations ...
Poul Kjærholm (1929-1980) is counted among the giants of modern Scandinavian furniture design. While mid-twentieth-century Scandinavian furniture is typically associated with the warmth of ...
Running through Akihisa Hirata's oeuvre is the concept of architecture as the creation of 'karamarishiro'. This term, coined by Hirata, loosely translatable as 'margin ...
This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka, presents the lives and works of Japanese sculptor Shingu ...
In his life's work, Gerhard Richter has consistently addressed the principle of how we see and perceive objects, moving between representation and abstraction using ...
With overlapping influences from American science fiction films and Japanese animation, Daisuke Tajima presents his first collection of works in 'Beyond the Lines.' Using ...
A new urban lifestyle blossomed in Japan in the 1920s and '30s as cafés, bars, and boutiques selling Western-inspired fare and fashions crowded city ...
Born in Kyoto, Shirai Seiichi (1905-1983) was an architect whose eccentric yet refined style and use of materials conspicuously diverged from the common architecture ...
An unprecedented book that deciphers traditional architecture from "models" and "technology." This book about the architecture of Japan showcases intricate Japanese architectural models developed ...
Posters were introduced to Japan from Europe toward the end of the Meiji period, along with printing techniques and design concepts from which their ...
This origami card book of Kyoto-style folded paper designs is light-hearted and brimming with pop and kitsch. Conceived by graphic designers Cochae (Yousuke Jikuhara ...
In Japan, limited land and resources have fostered creativity and shaped a rich culture valuing ingenuity and imagination. Satoshi Itasaka's personal philosophies play a ...
Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead ...
