The Amazing Fartzini III by Shane Robinson

The Amazing Fartzini III by Shane Robinson

Examines a fiercely creative and lyrical body of work

Although she is considered the most avant-garde member of the Yoshida family, Yoshida Chizuko's legacy has been overshadowed by the celebrated male artists in the family, particularly her father-in-law, Yoshida Hiroshi, and her husband, Yoshida Hodaka. This book charts Chizuko's sustained engagement with abstraction and music in the immediate postwar years and the evolving visual language of her practice, leading to neon-colored Op art, works inspired by commercial advertising, and later poetic and transient themes drawn from nature.

This ambitious catalog includes more than one hundred works of art produced over sixty years: early paintings and sketches, rare monotypes, woodblock prints, and zinc-plate mixed media prints, many of which are published here for the first time. The original scholarship by Jeannie Kenmotsu, Hollis Goodall, Noriko Kuwahara, and Ayomi Yoshida represents a major step forward in studies of twentieth-century Japanese women printmakers, who have long been relegated to the sidelines. Their essays provide critical context for Chizuko's significance as a member of the Yoshida family and as a key artist in the flourishing network of the postwar Creative Print movement in Japan.

Yoshida Chizuko expands the discourse on the history of international printmaking, modern art, and gender outside the Euro-American sphere, and on the unique challenges of pursuing art as a woman during the American occupation of Japan and its immediate aftermath.

Katz, Anna: - Anna Katz is a writer and editor. She lives with her husband and dogs in Seattle. You can find her at www.helloannakatz.com.
Shane Robinson is an American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) ski guide in the winter and a treehouse builder the rest of the year. He has been exploring the mountains, rivers, and forests of the Cascades ever since he moved to Seattle with his wife in 2002. See more of his exploits on Instagram @shanecrobinson

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ISBN 13	9781916235656
ISBN 10	1916235654
Title	The Amazing Fartzini III
Author	Robinson Shane
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nielsen UK ISBN
Year published	2021-01-21
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.