Three decades of the beloved Japanese artist-s paintings, drawings, sculptures and more
Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable portraits of menacing figures reflect the artist-s raw encounters with his inner self. Nara-s oeuvre takes inspiration from a wide range of resources-memories of his childhood, music, literature, studying and living in Germany (1988-2000), exploring his roots in Japan, Sakhalin and Asia, and modern art from Europe and Japan.
Spanning 35 years (1985 to 2020), this book-which accompanies the major career retrospective organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art-presents the full range of Nara-s work. It also examines the artist-s work through the lens of his longtime passion-music-and features -liner notes- written by the artist about various albums in his personal collection of 1960s and 70s folk and rock albums, published in English for the first time.
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