Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man by Kishin Shinoyama

Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man by Kishin Shinoyama

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.

Kishin Shinoyama is one of the titans of Japanese postwar photography. In 2018 Louis Vuitton reprinted his landmark 1981 work on the Silk Road.

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ISBN 13	9780847868698
ISBN 10	0847868699
Title	Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man
Author	Kishin Shinoyama
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Rizzoli International Publications
Year published	2020-09-29
Number of pages	96
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