Izima Kaoru  -  Roy Exley, Yuko Hasegawa

Landscapes with a Corpse

KORTE INHOUD

The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, wrote Edgar Allan Poe. And one is tempted to be of the same opinion when considering Ophelia, Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina. This concept is also deeply rooted in Far Eastern culture: Buddhism even recommends daily meditation on one's own death. The Japanese artist Izima Kaoru (*1954 in Kyoto) lets the most beautiful of the beautiful generate ideas about their own impermanence, about their own death, which he then trans...
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2008 Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag 192 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  290x350 ISBN-10: 3775722378 ISBN-13: 9783775722377