A handful of years after he arrived in New York from Tokyo as a young Neo-Dada sculptor, Arakawa began producing two-dimensional works that brought together text and schematic images. These diagram paintings, begun in the mid-1960s, offered elusive combinations of signs and shapes with words and phrases. With these paintings, he sought to stimulate the formation of mental images by the viewer and for the viewer to engage both mind and eye in the act of perception. Arakawa would continue this investigation of human ...
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A handful of years after he arrived in New York from Tokyo as a young Neo-Dada sculptor, Arakawa began producing two-dimensional works that brought together text and schematic images. These diagram paintings, begun in the mid-1960s, offered elusive combinations of signs and shapes with words and phrases. With these paintings, he sought to stimulate the formation of mental images by the viewer and for the viewer to engage both mind and eye in the act of perception. Arakawa would continue this investigation of human consciousness through diagrammatic works on paper and canvas over the following two decades. He used a variety of materials and created works ranging from modest-sized drawings to vast paintings on multiple panels. This striking volume takes a close look at this crucial period in Arakawa s art, prior to his return to three dimensions. Numerous illustrations, a new essay by Charles W. Haxthausen, and a historical text by Italo Calvino reveal an artist with a committed focus on our awareness of our bodies in the act of perceiving.
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As New. No Jacket. Book Large format 11"w x 11.25". 136 pg monograph. Four color images throughout, along with black and white photographs. iPaper over board case. Bottom front has a slight tear. Top front has a dent near the edge. Text clean and unmarked. Remainder mark on text bottom, otherwise as new.
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New. No Jacket, As Issued. Book 136 pages. Color illustrations. Still in shrink-wrap. Illustrated Boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Gagosian Gallery, New York NY March 5-April 13, 2019.
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VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn/bumped; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Off-white illustrated boards with black lettering; 132 pp.; richly illustrated, chiefly in color. Created on the occasion of an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York, from March 5th through April 13, 2019.
