"KAN YASUDA - SCULPTURE". Collectif sous la supervision de Toshihiro Miki. Editions Leonardo – De Luca, Rome. 1991. Imprimé en Italie. in-4 format oblong, couverture toilée noire sous jaquette photo. Pages de garde photo.  120 pages. Textes trilingues Japonais/Italien/Anglais par Giulio Lazzotti, Bruno Munari, Makoto Ooka, Paolo Pillitteri, Atsushi Takeda, avant-propos d'Isamu Nogushi, illustré de 110 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, pleine page pour la plupart dont 11 en double page, par Romano Cagnoni & Kozo Watabiki.

Exemplaire avec un envoi autographe de Kan Yasuda sur la page de titre.

 

"There was this enormous sculpture towering into arctic clear cold air. The sculpture itself was of this same nature, as though hewn out of ice. I could tell front even a photograph. Who was this sculptor who could conceive a piece of such belonging? It was not the horizon that defined it but a belonging to people, a mutuality suggested by the form. My coming to know Yasuda Kan had always this question in the background. Was he really the man I thought he must be? Then along came another monument in the north; a group of smokestacks ending on top with birdlike cones that seemed to guard the bleak land against intruders. Can there be any doubt about those cones thumbing their noses every which way a decoy for missiles? What better protection could an artist offer than laughter? Art is what counts of course. That which gives the quality to this humor. I like to think that the motivation doesn't matter, so long as it gets the artist going. But art is a response after all and this must be counted among its worth. For art itself to be the motive is another matter…" Isamu Nogushi.

 

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