{"product_id":"tetsuya-ishida-isbn-9780847832187","title":"Tetsuya Ishida","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished   in conjunction with the landmark exhibition, \u003ci\u003eTetsuya   Ishida: My Anxious Self\u003c\/i\u003e, at Gagosian New York, this fully   illustrated catalog documents more than eighty paintings by the late   Tetsuya Ishida and includes new essays by Cecilia Alemani and Diethard   Leopold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTetsuya   Ishida: My Anxious Self\u003c\/i\u003e accompanies the 2023 survey   exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, of more than eighty paintings by the   late Japanese artist on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his   birth. With works from the Ishida Estate, notable private collections, and   the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan, \u003ci\u003eTetsuya   Ishida: My Anxious Self\u003c\/i\u003e represents the most   comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to have been staged outside   Japan, and his first ever in New York.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver   the course of just ten years, Ishida produced a striking body of work centered   on the theme of human alienation. He emerged as an artist during Japan’s   “lost decade,” a recession that lasted through the 1990s, and his paintings   capture the feelings of hopelessness, claustrophobia, and disconnection that   characterized Japanese society during this time of rapid technological   advancement. Before his untimely death in 2005, Ishida conjured allegories of   the challenges to national life in paintings and graphic works charged with a   Kafkaesque absurdity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe   catalog contains lavish plate photography, including details, of the exhibited   paintings. An extensive essay by Alemani provides essential historical and   interpretive context for the work, while an essay by Diethard Leopold   examines Ishida’s frequent use of his own face in his paintings.   The catalog also features a foreword by Larry Gagosian; an introduction by Michiaki   Ishida, the artist’s brother; and a reprint of the short story “The Red   Cocoon” (1950) by Kōbō Abe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIshida   was born in the city of Yaizu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, in 1973, and died in Tokyo   in 2005. Gagosian presented the first exhibition of Ishida’s work outside   Japan, in Hong Kong in 2013.\"Not merely a reproduction of the wall text, Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self introduces the artist to an American audience, setting the stage for how such haunting and ridiculous paintings could even be made. Gagosian himself writes about the links between Ishida and other canonical artists like Ben Shahn or George Grosz who saw the horrors of their respective generations and forced the viewer to face the most grotesque, brutal parts of humanity, often with a dash of humor.\" — NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS\u003cb\u003eKōbō Abe\u003c\/b\u003e (1924–1993), considered one of Japan’s most influential postwar novelists, is also known for his short stories, plays, and film scenarios. \u003cb\u003eCecilia Alemani\u003c\/b\u003e, an Italian curator based in New York, is the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York. \u003cb\u003eMichiaki Ishida\u003c\/b\u003e is the older brother of Tetsuya Ishida. \u003cb\u003eDiethard Leopold\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Vienna in 1956 to a family of art collectors, continues to live in the Austrian capital where he works as a curator at the Leopold Museum and writes opera librettos in the style of Japanese Noh plays.","brand":"Gagosian \/ Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301906206949,"sku":"NP9780847832187","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847832187.jpg?v=1767737924","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tetsuya-ishida-isbn-9780847832187","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}