Catalogues

Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
• Published by Japan Society, Inc.; distributed by Yale University Press
• 224 pages; 97 color illustrations
• Written by Gregory Levine, Associate Professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley; Yukio Lippit, Assistant Professor of History of Art, Harvard University.

Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
• Published by MFA Publications
• Softcover only; 101 pages
• Written by Joe Earle, exhibition curator and former Chair, Department of Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture
• Japan Society, New York and Yale University Press, New Haven and London
• Softcover; 288 pages; 500 color illustrations
• Edited by Takashi Murakami; Contributors: Toshio Okada; Kaichiro Morikawa; Noi Sawaragi; Midori Matsui; Alexandra Munroe; Tom Eccles; Katy Siegel; Editing: Chiaki Kasahara; Reiko Tomii; Design: Takaya Goto.

Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
• Hardcover and Softcover available
• 224 pages; 202 color illustrations

Mitsuko Asakura: Tapestry in Architecture: Creating Human Spaces
• 62 pages; book measures 9 1/2 x 9 inches; Softcover
• Published by Mitsuko Asakura Tapestry in Architecture: Creating Human Spaces Exhibition Steering Committee
• Introduction by Akira Tatehata

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation
Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Yale University Press. Hard cover only; 210 pages with color and black and white illustrations. Authors: Sandra Phillips, Leo Rubinfien, John Dower. Preface by Daido Moriyama.

Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan
This fully illustrated volume published by Japan Society and distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., features essays by internationally renowned scholars of Korean and Japanese Buddhist art as well as a complete catalogue of objects from the exhibition held at Japan Society from April 9 - June 22, 2003.
• Published by Japan Society, New York.
• Hard cover, 384 pages; 115 color and 160 black and white illustrations.
Authors: Washizuka Hiromitsu, Director of Nara National Museum and Exhibition Co-curator; Park Youngbok, Director of Gyeongju National Museum and Exhibition Co-curator; Kang Woo-bang, Professor at Ewha Woman’s University and Exhibition Co-curator; Ariga Yoshitaka; Jonathan W. Best; Choi Eung-chon; Kim Lena; Konno Toshifumi; Kwak Dong-seok; Ônishi Shûya; Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt; and Tanabe Saburôsuke.

YES YOKO ONO
Co-published by Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. 352 pages; 360 illustrations (102 in full color. Includes CD of Yoko Ono music. Authors: Alexandra Munroe, Director, Japan Society Gallery and exhibition curator, with Jon Hendricks, Fluxus scholar and exhibition consultant. Contributions by Murray Sayle; Jann Wenner; Bruce Altshuler, Joan Rothfuss, Midori Yoshimoto, Kristine Stiles, Kevin Concannon, Chrissie Iles, Edward Gomez, Nanjo Fumio, Kai Bauer, Achille Bonito Oliva, Lars Schwander, Pablo Rico, Reiko Tomii.

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