Hardcover Book. “Murakami” Takashi Murakami. Los Angeles, Ca. 2007

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Hardcover Book:  MURAKAMI

Author: Takashi Murakami

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Subject: “Murakami Productions

Hardcover Book: 100-38

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 as toys, books, and most famously, a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. A committed supporter and spokesperson for Japanese artists and a powerful commentator on postwar culture and society, Murakami has organized influential exhibitions of Japanese art as well as a biannual art fair in Tokyo. Murakami has positioned himself as a new type of artist for the twenty-first century: a hybrid of creator, entrepreneur, and cultural ambassador.In conjunction with the first major retrospective of his work, Murakami traces Murakami’s global impact socially, culturally, and art historically. Essays focus on Murakami’s early works, which were based on a social critique of Japan’s rampant consumerism; the development of his characters; his work with anime, fantasy; otaku culture; and his engagement with global pop culture.

Pages:376

Date: 2007

THIS BOOK WAS GIFTED TO JULIUS SHULMAN BY THE BOOK’S PUBLISHER.

THIS BOOK IS IN NEW CONDITION CONDITION AND WAS USED BY SHULMAN AT HIS HOLLYWOOD HILLS STUDIO.
From Shulman’s Private Book Collection located at his Hollywood Hills Studio.

“Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree – it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots.” Thus Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, the term International Style came into use to describe a new form of architecture evolved from Bauhaus and its conviction that “form follows function”. Until the 1980s, International Style set the standard in modern building, with its logical formal idiom and rational solutions to construction problems. Combining steel, glass and concrete, it established an aesthetic founded on the sheer thrill of pushing to the limits of technical and economic viability. Hence the exhil-arating skylines of metropolises worldwide – but also the desolate anonymity of modern suburban environments. This book traces the exciting evolution of a style while examining the individual and regional forms it took, and analyses the ideals and realities of architectural visions of utopia.

*This Book is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity authorized by the Julius Shulman Trust and Photographic Archives.

Size 10″ x 12.5″  ( 25.4 cm. x 31.75 cm.)

This Hardcover Book is in new condition. Report: Any condition statement is given as an opinion and the condition statement does not imply that these Hardcover Book is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfection or the effects of aging.

This Hardcover Book is part of the Julius Shulman Estate and came directly from Shulman’s Hollywood Hills Studio.