Unfamiliar People―Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego

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A collection of works breaking new ground that presents a pop perspective on the gradually expanding and monstrous human ego.

Takashi Murakami is an internationally active artist who is active in a wide range of fields and is one of the most driving forces in the contemporary art world.
This book is a collection of works published in conjunction with the exhibition Unfamiliar People—Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego (2023, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco).

Born out of an era of unprecedented environmental, political and social turmoil, these colorful monsters, with their compound eyes and sharp fangs, somehow provoke a sense of unease in the viewer.
Murakami Takashi has used the creature in a variety of works as a vessel to represent "rampant consumerism," "our inevitable human potential for error," and "the perils of our competitive digital lives."

This book explores these contemporary themes through works from the past decade, and is edited by Laura W. Allen, the museum's senior curator of Japanese art, and features commentary by Ikegami Yuko, a professor of international cultural studies at Kobe University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies who specializes in contemporary art, and Shiwa Masako, a world-renowned expert on digital art including NFT works.

With the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art's 90th anniversary commemorative exhibition "Murakami Takashi: Monsters Kyoto" scheduled to open in February 2024, this book explores Murakami Takashi's current whereabouts, a work that is attracting even more attention today.

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Product Information

Publisher Asian Art Museum/Yale University Press

release date 2023 / 09 / 19

Part numberKART10178W-9780300273182

Specification 144 pages, 8 x 12 inches, 120 color illustrations, hardcover, English

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