Katsura : picturing modernism in Japanese architecture / photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro ; Yasufumi Nakamori.

Main entry:

Nakamori, Yasufumi.

Title & Author:

Katsura : picturing modernism in Japanese architecture / photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro ; Yasufumi Nakamori.

Publication:

Description:

168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 20-Sept. 12, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (page 166).
Foreword / Peter C. Marzio -- Acknowledgments / Yasufumi Nakamori -- Ishimoto Yasuhiro's Katsura : reexamined and revisited / Yasufumi Nakamori -- Letters -- Plates -- Chronology : the life of Ishimoto Yasuhiro and the making of Katsura.

Summary:

This publication argues that Tange, motivated by a desire to transform the architectural images into abstract fragments, played a major role in cropping and sequencing Ishimoto's photographs for the original book. The author provides a critical look at the nature of the collaboration between Tange and Ishimoto.

ISBN:

9780300163339 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300163339 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012 Exhibitions.
Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012
Katsura Rikyū (Kyoto, Japan) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Katsura (Kyōto, Japon) Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Katsura Rikyū (Kyoto, Japan)
Architectural photography Japan Kyoto Exhibitions.
Modern movement (Architecture) Japan Kyoto Exhibitions.
Photographie d'architecture Japon Kyōto Expositions.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Japon Kyōto Expositions.
Photography.
Architectural photography
Modern movement (Architecture)
Japan Kyoto

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works

Added entries:

Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267586
Call No.: BIB 199561
Status: Available

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