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Art Space Tokyo
An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World
Book Specifics:
- Published by Chin Music Press
- ISBN 978-09741995-5-9
- Edited by Ashley Rawlings
- Available online from April 2008
- US Pub date: September 2008
- US $30
- 272 pages
- Hardcover, clothbound
- Sewn in bookmark
- 125mm x 195mm
- 28 Interviews
- 8 Essays
- Over 40 illustrations
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Topics Include:
- Japan's position within the rise of the Asian art scene
- Takashi Murakami and the relationship between contemporary art and manga/anime
- changes in the Ginza area's position in the Tokyo art world
- an account of connecting with the Tokyo art world as a foreign curator
- converting subway luggage lockers into galleries
- 100 artists renovating a 160 year old warehouse
- contemporary Japanese architecture and urban regeneration in Tokyo
- the current state of Japanese art publishing and art criticism
- international art fairs in Tokyo
- the collecting of artwork and the history of Japanese auction houses
- the potential for open source urbanity in Tokyo
- art and performance in Tokyo's public spaces
- and much more ...
Interviews with:
- Atsuko Koyanagi
- Masami Shiraishi
- Toshio Hara
- Fumio Nanjo
- Masato Nakamura
- Yukio Futagawa
- And many, many (many) more ...
Essays by:
- Fumihiko Sumitomo (MoT)
- Tetsuya Ozaki (ART iT)
- Roger McDonald (AIT)
- Clementine Deliss (Metronome)
- Roland Kelts (Japanamerica)
- Dominique Chen (Divvy/dual)
- And more ...
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