Leonor Fini
Published by The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2005, 148 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 27 cm, Japanese/French
Price: €55

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition at the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 18 June – 31 July, 2005, that toured to Daimaru Museum, Umeda; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma & Nagoya City Art Museum.

Leonor Fini was an Argentine-Italian painter who spent much of her artistic career in France. Associated with the Surrealist movement, Fini’s self-portraits and mythological paintings focused on eroticism and dreams.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#2005 #leonorfini #painting #surrealism
Archäologie Beaux Arts Ethnography Théâtre Vérité
Christopher Williams
Published by Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2005, 2 volumes, 48 pp. & 8 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.7 × 25 cm, English
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle at the Contemporary Art Gallery, January 13 – March 6, 2005.

It includes a forward by Christina Ritchie, essays; Mechanization takes command: Modernization, Terminable and interminable by John Miller and Some References for Christopher Williams by Claudia Beck.

Designed by Christopher Williams with Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2005 #christopherwilliams #johnmiller #photography #yvonnequirmbach
Japanese Women Artists in Avant-Garde Movements, 1950–1975
Published by Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, 2005, 208 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19.8 × 24.2 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €90 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Japanese Women Artists in Avant-Garde Movements, 1950–1975 at Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 24 July–11 September, 2005. Including artists Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Mieko Shiomi, Yoko Ono, Sawako Goda, Shigeko Kubota, Mitsuko Tabe, Miyori Hayashi, Yuri Nonaka, Takako Saito and many more.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#2005 #atsukotanaka #japaneseavantgarde #miekoshiomi #mitsukotabe #miyorihayashi #sawakogoda #shigekokubota #takakosaito #yayoikusama #yokoono #yurinonaka
(Wine label)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Abbaye de Saint-Ferme, Saint-Ferme, 2005, wine label (colour & b/w ill.), 9 × 12 cm, French
Price: €32 (Out of stock)

Wine label designed by Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

#2005 #ephemera #marccamillechaimowicz
Celebration? Realife: Revisited
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Alberta Press, 2005, 98 pp. with CD (colour & b/w ill.), 21.3 × 26.1 cm, English
Price: €95 (out of stock)

Presents the original installation Celebration? Realife by Chaimowicz at Gallery House, London, 1972, as well as the recent re-installations at the Cabinet Gallery, London; the Migros Museum, Zurich and the FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.

Texts by Alison Bracker, Matthew Higgs.

#2005 #marccamillechaimowicz #matthewhiggs
30 - 版画掌誌「ときの忘れもの」第05号 C版
Takao Hiwasaki
Published by Toki-no-Wasuremono, Tokyo,2005, (b/w ill.), 26 × 32 cm, Japanese
Price: €38

Takao Hiwasaki is credited with reviving the wood engraving technique in Japan, where it was introduced by Britain in the Meiji period as a means of quickly reproducing works before falling out of favour with the arrival of photomechanical methods. He taught himself the medium in the 1960s after reading Onchi Koshiro’s book on Japanese printmaking, Nihon no gendai hanga, as a fine art technique rather than for reproduction, applying his Modernist, sometimes Surrealist styles to his compositions. This inspired the formation of the group Nomi no Kai (The Chisels) by admirers and followers of the technique, which helped launch Japan’s wood engraving renaissance in the 1970s.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#2005 #printmaking #takaohiwasaki