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YOSHTOMO NARA: LULLABY SUPERMARKET

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This artist is under 40 years old, yet this is an excellent catalog of his work to date. Great print quality, great color and reproductions and paper. It's not a popular press, commercial purpose book, but an academic, museum type book, hence the high quality.

I've never seen his original work live and in person, but this catalog is very satisfying, perhaps because his flat art is so purposely two dimensional.

Plus, great essays, in German and Japanese, and conveniently translated into English, too. Any page you turn to at random, there is something of interest there.

If you like Japanese pop arts, you got to buy this book. Lots of illustrations, very good paper/print quality.

Nara is one of my favorite artists. More than just a Japanese artist, he is actually an international artist with respect from the upper artistic class and the rebel class. He has the ability to become the Asian 21st Andy Warhol, but he appears to not want it. This collection does not do justice to his work. I mean, there is a difference from seeing his work in person and seeing it in a book. Once you have seen his work up close, you feel a haunting sense come over you. This book cannot do that because it feels so impersonal. However, the pictures here are excellent (of course), but I advise anyone to see his work in person. If you cannot, this book will have to do.

This is a great book but it's not sold in many bookstores.
Amazon offers a great deal so check it out!