The Araki Limited Edition is limited to 3,000 copies. Each copy is individually numbered and includes foil-blocked, textured pages. The Araki Limited Edition is bound in special fabric and presented in a slipcase. Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his life's work.

Nobuyoshi Araki:: Self, Life, Death: Limited Edition

Arts & Photography

Barbican Art Gallery

Jeffrey, Ian

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan's greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. The more than 300 books he has published over the last four decades attest to his inexhaustible creative energy, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad. This major publication provides the most comprehensive overview yet of Araki's highly prolific forty-year career. Araki's key series of works are included alongside many new and previously unpublished photographs.

Untitled (1997): Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death

This new abridged edition of the highly acclaimed Self Life Death provides an overview of Nobuyoshi Araki's (b.1940) prolific forty year career, featuring his finest and most iconic images in a new, expanded format. Arguably Japan's greatest living photographer - and certainly its most controversial - Araki consistently challenges artistic and social conventions in postwar Japan. The book examines Araki's work from a wide variety of viewpoints: Japanese and European; female and male, including all his major works, such as Sentimental Journey (1971), Tokyo Story (1989) and Erotos (1993). Araki's writings, widely admired and published in Japan, which were translated into English for the first time for Self Life Death, are also included. At this affordable and accessible format, a new audience of photography students and enthusiasts will be able to own a book on this influential photographer

Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death

Miki, Akiko

The third reprint of an indispensable resource for students and art historians alike. This book continues to be the only general survey of this field, covering the diverse group of talent from the decline of Pre-Raphaelitism in the late 19th century to the rise of "Neo-Romanticism" in the 1940s.
From Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, with sculpture and children's book illustrators, there is no other volume as comprehensive or as broad of scope.

The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art : Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 152 p., 150 ill. (40 col.) Exhibition catalogue of 1992 Barbican Gallery exhibition. Printed in edition of 4000 copies. Review copy, probably never read. Some minor marks on cover showing shallow scrape. Bend on back bottom corner.

Van Gogh in England: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

The Art of African Textiles, published to accompany a pioneering Barbican Art Gallery exhibition for the Africa 95 season, examines textile design and manufacture across the African continent, with over 150 illustrations displaying the variety and inventiveness of the cloths produced.The reality of twentieth-century African textiles is as complex and inter-woven as the textiles themselves. This book reveals the new materials, images, technologies and demands that have enriched textiles in Africa over the last 150 years.

Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition, and Lurex

PICTON, JOHN

Natique Collections

Becker, Rayda

Decorative Arts & Design

This work provides a response to the explosion of creativity at the cutting edge of urban culture in 90s Britain. With leading names from photography, graphics, and fashion, the book accompanies the Barbican exhibition of the same title.

Jam: Style + Music + Media

Booth-Clibborn

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