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(MURAKAMI, TAKASHI). Murakami, Takashi & Hiroki Azuma. Tokyo: Madra Publishing Co., Ltd., 2000. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine./Fine.. 172pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Art Direction by Takashi Murakami. With artist profiles and an exhibition checklist. This is the stylishly designed, beautifully printed catalogue published in conjunction with the first major international touring exhibition of works by the new generation of Anime and Manga-influenced Japanese contemporary artists. Surveying current tendencies in art, animation, graphic design, and fashion towards two-dimensionality, "Superflat" features painting, photography, works on paper, video, fashion, computer animation, cartoons, performance, and sculpture by nineteen artists. Curated and with a text by Takashi Murakami, it includes the work of Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, Bome, Enlightenment (Hiro Sugiyama), groovisions, Yoshinori Kanada, Henmaru Machino, Koji Morimoto, Mr., Katsushige Nakahashi, Yoshitomo Nara, Shigeyoshi Ohi, Masafumi Sanai, SLEEP, Chikashi Suzuki, Aya Takano, Kentaro Takekuma, Hitoshi Tomizawa, and 20471120. The exhibition had its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in January 2001 following presentations in Tokyo and Nagoya. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2000 first printing in the publisher's printed metallic obi, as issued. 4-944079-20-6 Inventory Number: 026778

(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Gilman, Larry, Editor. With texts by Yoshitomo Nara, Kristin Chambers, Josh Kun, Ingrid Schaffner, Billie Joe Armstrong, Carrie Brownstein, John Doe, Dave Eggers, Lars Frederickson, Debbie Harry, Leonard Nimoy, Ozomatli & Jill Snyder. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011. First Edition. Stout 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné. As New/As New. This lavishly produced two-volume catalogue raisonné was produced with the full participation of Yoshitomo Nara. Featuring two four-hundred page volumes bound in fabric featuring Nara's designs and housed in a similar slipcase, it is the most extensive, authoritative, and beautiful expression of the artist's work published to date. The set documents nearly all of the artist's prolific output over the span of his career to date, including more than four thousand, five hundred paintings, drawings, editions, sculptures, photographs, and collaborations with other artists. Included are new essays written by Nara himself as well as texts from Banana Yoshimoto, Takashi Murakami, Hiroshi Sugito, Midori Matsui, Kristin Chambers, Josh Kun, Ingrid Schaffner, Billie Joe Armstrong, Carrie Brownstein, John Doe, Dave Eggers, Lars Frederickson, Debbie Harry, Leonard Nimoy, Ozomatli, and Jill Snyder. A brand new, most handsome example of this now-unavailable massive undertaking still in shrinkwrap in the publisher's decorative cardboard outer shipping box with the Nara-designed limited edition tote bag / artist's multiple, as issued. 0-8118-7028-6 Inventory Number: 026725

(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Nara, Yoshitomo & Marilu Knode. Milwaukee, WI: Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Folded Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. One 19 ½ x 25" sheet printed offset recto and verso, 9 color and 10 b&w illustrations, machine-folded in twelfths to make 7 x 7", as issued. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the poster cum exhibition catalogue produced in conjunction with Yoshitomo Nara's 1998 one person exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts at The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Configured essentially as a two-sided poster, in addition to depicting his usual cute dogs and malevolent kids, it includes texts by Nara and curator Marilu Knode along with a 1.44 MB Imation 3M Formatted High Density 3.5 Diskette - remember those? - documenting the exhibition. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Y. Nara 2000" WITH A DRAWING of one of his bunny-eared little girls in black marker on the front cover made by the artist at our shop. Inventory Number: 026724

(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Nara, Yoshitomo, Stephan Trescher & Banana Yoshimoto. Nurnberg, GERMANY & Tokyo, JAPAN. 2001 (2002).: Verlag fur Moderne Kunst & Kadokawa Shoten. Later Printing. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 203pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and Japanese. This is the comprehensive hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2001 Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nürnberg retrospective of the quirky Anime and Manga influenced drawings, paintings, and sculptures of renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. A most handsome example. 4-04-853336-3 Inventory Number: 020783

(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Nara, Yoshitomo, Taro Amano & Midori Matsui. Yokohama, JAPAN: Nara Yoshitomo Exhibition Committee, 2001. Later Printing. 8vo. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 175pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This is a comprehensive catalogue of the quirky Anime + Manga influenced artist Yoshitomo Nara's drawings, paintings and sculpture published in conjunction with a 2001 touring Japanese Retrospective. A most handsome example with the CD-ROM of "Dolls that took part in the exhibition" laid in, as issued. 4-473-01839-3 Inventory Number: 020784

(VISIONAIRE). Edited By Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos. Text By Glenn O'Brien.. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2000. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Fashion Quarterly. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp) + 16 six-sided pictorial blocks housed in a Lucite case. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the thirtieth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Issued in conjunction with the Louis Vuitton Cup Trials to determine the finalists for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, Visionaire assembled teams of artists, photographers and image makers from the seven participating countries. Six contributors each from the U.S., Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland produced an image that occupies one side of each of the enclosed blocks; the sixteen cubes placed in the correct configuration form one of the six different images. The six Japanese contributors represented here are Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Homma, Syd Mead, Daisuke Nakayama, and Miwa Yanagi. These cubes, along with a booklet of all forty-two images are packaged inside a silk-screened Lucite case created for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The closure for this case is a spherical compass on a leather thong, so you'll never get lost while trying to solve the puzzles inside. A most handsome individually numbered example (#2662) of the Japan edition inside the publisher's unprinted protective cardboard shipping box, as issued. 1-888645-27-X Inventory Number: 023774