Saturday, February 18, 2006

Kansuke Yamamoto: Vintage Photographs, 1935-1955

Kansuke Yamamoto: Vintage Photographs, 1935-1955 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. "...Yamamoto’s highly aesthetic imagery can be seen as a Japanese interpretation of the language of European surrealism with many works in dialogue with artists such as Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and Jean Arp. Yamamoto published over a 40-year span in avant-garde journals with limited circulation in Japan, and the strangeness and transgressive nature of his imagery was considered threatening, inviting persecution of the artist by the Tokko (Thought Police)."

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