In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.

Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man

Arts & Photography

SHINOYAMA, Kishin

Photography & Video

Rizzoli

L’Eurasie et ses paysages demeurent la providence du voyageur. De Nara, ancienne capitale du Japon aux territoires d’Occident, l’enfant de Tokyo a parcouru un dédale de routes. Les images sélectionnées ici parmi les huit volumes publiés en 1981 et 1982 relatent la vie des gens. Dans ce croisement des civilisations, les croyances, qu’il s’agisse du bouddhisme, de l’islam ou du christianisme, perdurent. L’ouvrage s’attache aussi à présenter des sites aujourd’hui disparus sous la violence des guerres et des fanatismes. Inestimable témoignage des statues des Bouddhas de Bâmiyân en Afghanistan, de la cité de Palmyre ou des souks d’Alep, en Syrie, certaines de ses diapositives conservent un temps qui n’est plus.

FASHION EYE SILK ROAD

LOUIS VUITTON

Accidents TOKYO AMI & Shinoyama Kishin | Photography | ( Japanese Import )

Asahi Press

Finally published outside of Japan, a rare gem from Kishin Shinoyama, one of the masters of Japanese photography. This dazzling collection of photographs of Japan in the ’60s by Kishin Shinoyama offers a monograph on the artist in addition to an accurate portrayal of a period and setting. About 400 black-and-white and full-color photographs are presented in this volume.

The Sixties by Kishin

Individual Artists

PIE International

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