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Overview"""Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art."" –Yoko Ono In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa (1937–2014) launched an open-ended, participatory project to search the streets of Japan for strange objects which he and his collaborators labeled ""hyperart,"" codifying them with an elaborate system of humorous nomenclature. Along with ""modernologists"" such as the Japanese urban anthropologist Kon Wajiro and his European contemporary, Walter Benjamin, Akasegawa is part of a lineage of modern wanderers of the cityscape. His work, which has captured the imagination of Japan, reads like a comic forerunner of the somber mixed-media writings of W.G. Sebald, and will appeal to all fans of modern literature, art, artistic/social movements and writing that combines visual images and text in the exploration of urban life. In this revised edition, Matthew Fargo's original US translation of Akasegawa's hilarious, brilliantly conceived exercise in collective observation is accompanied by reflections from noted scholars Jordan Sand and Reiko Tomii, as well as a new essay by Akasegawa scholar William Marotti and a reflection on Akasegawa's legacy as a teacher by writer, artist and composer Masayuki Qusumi, a former student of Akasegawa's." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Genpei Akasegawa , Masayuki Qusumi , Matthew Fargo , William MarottiPublisher: Kaya Press Imprint: Kaya Press ISBN: 9781885030788ISBN 10: 1885030789 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |