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Yukio Mishima: the Death of a Man by Kishin Shinoyama (2020, Hardcover)

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In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, an extended photo essay on the death of the Japanese 'everyman.'.

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PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100847868699

ISBN-139780847868698

eBay Product ID (ePID)2321127910

Product Key Features

Book TitleYukio Mishima: the Death of a Man

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicSubjects & Themes / Historical, Individual Photographers / Essays, Photoessays & Documentaries

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorKishin Shinoyama

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight28.6 Oz

Item Length12 in

Item Width8.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-937368

SynopsisIn commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mushima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime - and often shocking - visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in 1970., On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century, publicly staged his own death after he and four other companions stormed the ministry of defense in Tokyo in a bizarre, abortive coup. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors , Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature and an LGBT pioneer, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His genius notwithstanding, his reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event are never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, an extended photo essay on the death of the Japanese 'everyman.' With Mishima as leading man, he and Shinoyama set about to record the 'deaths' of a number of men. In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, all invariably shot with an elaborate mise-en-scene, a parade of men, including a gymnast, a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, a soldier - and towards the very end, an avatar of the author himself - are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylised images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art, one without equal in history. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates, and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance, and the role of artist as actor, provocateur and revolutionary., In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors , Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.

LC Classification NumberTR675.S467 2020