Mariko Mori: Dream Temple [Hardcover]

Germano Celant (Editor), Miuccia Prada (Editor), Mariko Mori (Author), Shin'Ichi Nakazawa (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 8887029113 | ISBN-13: 978-8887029116 | Publication Date: May 2, 2000 | Edition: First Edition

Essay by Miuccia Prada.

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About the Author

Mariko Mori was born in Tokyo in 1967. Mori, who divides her time between Tokyo and New York, is a former model whose training in fashion studies rigorously informs her investigations of the impact of media on the cultural construction of identity. Her panoramic photographs and video installations present fantastic tableaux that conflate past, present, and future and feature the artist in the roles of cyborgs or otherworldly spirits. She has had solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art among others.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Fondazione Prada; First Edition edition (May 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8887029113
• ISBN-13: 978-8887029116
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,733,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Documents an artwork in the best Japanese tradition, September 26, 2000

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Richard Campbell (Oregon City, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mariko Mori: Dream Temple (Hardcover)

I first saw the work of Mariko Mori in the Museum of photography in Tokyo in 1998. Mori tends to use her own image a lot in the manner of Cindy Sherman. The Dream Temple, however, is not self-referential but, instead, points back to Japanese history.

Mori doesn't build her art herself but designs and supervises. This is similar to the way the wonderful Japanese woodblock prints were produced with the artist executing the design and specialists carving and printing the works.

The book is the documentation of her preliminary designs and drawings and then proceeds to show computer simulations and finally the finished artwork itself.

This is a very finely produced book. The reproductions of the pencil drawings, for example, look so much like real pencil works that you expect them to smudge. Even the feel of the paper makes the experience of looking at the book a very tactile one.

My only criticism of the book is that there is no explanation about the final status of the temple itself. Did it only exist during the exhibition? Will it be permanently on display somewhere?

And, of course, it is an expensive book but one who's value is there.