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ISBN: HB: 9783037785676

Lars Muller Publishers

July 2018

248 pp.

28x25 cm

236 illus., language: English / Japanese

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£45,00
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Shizuko Yoshikawa

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a member of the second generation of constructive-concrete art, she takes a special position due to her Japanese origins and education.

Shizuko Yoshikawa, born 1934 in Japan and living in Switzerland, was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung known as the postwar "Bauhaus". She later married the renowned designer Josef Muller-Brockmann (1914-1996), a pioneer of Swiss graphic design.

This book, initiated by the Shizuko Yoshikawa and Josef Muller-Brockmann Foundation, contains a major essay by art historian Gabrielle Schaad and a contribution by Prof. Midori Yoshimoto, highlighting the life of the artist and interpreting her oeuvre in the Japanese context. Inspired by this publication, an exhibition will take place in Tokyo and Zurich in 2018.