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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue

Various Artists

$28.18

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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HARUMI GALS (B)

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

$33.82

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“Harumi Gals” collects the iconic series of pin-up drawings created by Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi since the 1970s. The art became symbolic of changes of the role of the woman in Japanese society and enjoys high critical esteem, partly due to its nature as a pin-up series crea...

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HARUMI GALS (A)

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

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“Harumi Gals” collects the iconic series of pin-up drawings created by Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi since the 1970s. The art became symbolic of changes of the role of the woman in Japanese society and enjoys high critical esteem, partly due to its nature as a pin-up series crea...

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Psychedelic Death Pop

Keiichi TANAAMI

$21.14

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“Psychedelic Death Pop” is a large-format, 40-page strong collection of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami’s recent visual works. Two large stickers form part of the book, which was published together with “Amulet of the Tapir” to accompany Tanaami’s 2017 exhibition at Nanzuka Gallery.

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Gate Hack Eden

$77.51

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Japanese photographer Osamu Kanemura presents a manifestation of his photographic practice with his publication "Gate Hack Eden," which is being published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Cave-Ayumi Gallery in Tokyo in September 2024. Consisting of four ...

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New Photographic Objects

Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO

$49.32

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This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “New Photographic Objects” catalogue e...

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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue (Special edition)

Various Artists

$70.46

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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The Beginning Place

$24.66

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Published on the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara’s major solo exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art, “The Beginning Place” guides readers through the career of this exceptional Japanese artist. Beginning with one of Nara’s earliest oil paintings (discarded as ‘unwanted work’ and discov...

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ASSEMBLE_Community Fantasy and Future

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Assemble is an informal collective formed in 2009 by Japanese artist Takayo Iida. This art book provides an overview of the works created by the group through photographs of their art as well as analytical essays, i.a. Ryuji Fujimura.

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De-porned Again

$15.50

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Japanese artist DokiDoki Club is back with a second series of “de-porned” images. With the power of imagination, a black marker, humor and a touch of shamelessness, DokiDoki Club transforms soft pornographic photographs into funny and slightly less pornographic artworks. Though und...

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Mononoke Kyoto

Takashi MURAKAMI

$42.28

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"Mononoke Kyoto" is the official catalogue for Takashi Murakami's major solo exhibition at the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto (February 3 - September 1, 2024). Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist whose influence on the contemporary Japanese art scene cannot be over...

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Art for the First Time

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Brazilian-Japanese artist Oscar Oiwa presents an updated version of his picture book “Art at First Time”. Originally published in 1995, Oiwa’s book follows an inquisitive ten-year old boy and his pet dog as they explore answers to a simple question: what is art? Through cute and im...

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Yoshitomo Nara：Self-selected Works―Paintings

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Yoshitomo Nara was born in1959, in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture. In 1987, he completed the master’s program at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. In1988,he taraveled to Germany and enrolled in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,where he studied and received his Meisterschüler ...

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Painter

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The comic “Painter” is the sequel to 2018’s “Cameraer” by Tokyo-based photographer and painter Hiroshi Nomura. Set in a world of camera-fied beings and metaphorical characters, “Painter” explores themes such as the nature of photography versus painting and the creative process (and...

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Amulet of the Tapir

Keiichi TANAAMI

$211.38

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Keiichi Tanaami’s belief in the “book as artwork” idea is once again brilliantly expressed with “Amulet of the Tapir”, a 400-page strong collection of Tanaami’s graphic art. Psychedelia-inspired styles and comic elements feature heavily in Tanaami’s artworks, with human faces – oft...

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Chroniques d'un Japon merveilleux

Akira YAMAGUCHI

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For about twenty years, Akira Yamaguchi has imposed a unique style of painting: a mixture of classicism and contemporary irreverence which make him one of the rare Japanese artists equally renowned inside and outside Japan. In his gigantic canvases with undeniable narrative power, ...

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Contact High Zine Issue 4: Into the Parallel

Yusuke YAMATANI, Mari KATAYAMA, Motohiko HASUI, Hideki MAKIGUCHI, RYU Ika, Yoko KUSANO, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Yoshirotten, Various Artists

$98.65

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Japanese independent magazine Contact High Zine presents its fourth issue, titled “Into The Parallel.” Featuring solo and collaborative works by artists such as Yoshirotten, Mari Katayama, Hideki Machiguchi, Kota Nakazono, Ohiana, Henry Darger, Yoko Kusano, Tsutomu Ono and many mor...

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White Album

Taizo KURODA, Seitaro KURODA

$211.38

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The “White Album” represents the only published collaboration between the late ceramic artist Taizo Kuroda and his brother, the painter Seitaro Kuroda. It consists of an original painting by Seitaro Kuroda, a magazine-book featuring texts and photographs about Seitaro’s paintings o...

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Kentaro Kobuke

$35.23

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This 2021 publication features 51 new works by London-based Japanese painter Kentaro Kobuke, created between 2016 and 2021. Kobuke demonstrates that his artistic expression has only deepened, despite (or perhaps because of) the impact of the corona pandemic. Utilizing fragmentary m...

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Comme des Garçons Zine Bundle

Vvery Negative Gucci Production

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This set of seven zines made by the anonymous collective Vvery Negative Gucci Production and designer Texas Knuller celebrates the work of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo and her fashion label Comme des Garcons. Six of the zines are dedicated to the inventive, unusual styles...