{"product_id":"kishio-suga-9788857247854","title":"Kishio Suga","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe second volume devoted to one of the key figures of his generation in Japan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the key figures in Japan's pivotal Mono-ha phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s, artist Kishio Suga has realised a visionary practice of ephemeral, site-specific installations and performative interventions into the everyday environment. Throughout Suga's career, writing has been an important element in his artistic process, as he uses his texts to interrogate the institution of art and anthropocentric conceptions of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects Suga's writings from the period 1980-89, when the Japanese art scene was transformed by a museum-building boom triggered by the country's rise to unprecedented economic heights. Having challenged conventional definitions of art through his formulations of the \"\u003cem\u003ething\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003ebeing left\u003c\/em\u003e\" a decade prior, Suga shifts his focus in the 1980s toward working with the collective logic of the world. In particular, he embarks on a sustained investigation into the dynamics of \"\u003cem\u003eperiphery surroundings\u003c\/em\u003e\" as the basis for an approach to artmaking in which subject and object are equalised and the marginal or unseen takes on as much significance as that which is centred or seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded here are the aphoristic fragments that Suga compiled for his retrospective monograph \u003cem\u003eKishio Suga, 1988-1968\u003c\/em\u003e, short statements composed for exhibition catalogues, and long-form essays published in art journals and other magazines during the period, many of which appear in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431403077868,"sku":"9788857247854","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857247854.jpg?v=1774557880","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/kishio-suga-9788857247854","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}