Killer Kaiju Monsters is the ultimate ode to the legendary monsters of the Japanese golden era of special effects movies and television shows, beginning with the granddaddy of them all—Godzilla. Featuring graphic full-color illustrations of the most notable kaiju along with descriptions of their strengths, weaknesses, and special powers, as well as information on the heroes and heroines who prevented kaiju attacks, and the creators who designed these magnificent monsters, Killer Kaiju Monsters is the definitive guide to these strange beasts of Japanese cinema.

Killer Kaiju Monsters: Strange Beasts of Japanese Film

Humor & Entertainment

Vartanian, Ivan

Movies

Harper

This book is a visual foray into Japan’s popular and influential Gothic-Lolita and Gothic Punk subculture. It showcases a creative lifestyle synthesized from a remix of Victoriana, the macabre, anime, and theatricality, drawing on the early punks of the ’70s and ’80s and the club kids of the ’90s. Japanese Goth blends disparate elements of global pop culture into something fun, stylish, and unique—part Marilyn Manson, part Hello Kitty. It attracts established figures from Tokyo’s trendsetting fashion, art, and design scenes, and has inspired the next generation of designers, tastemakers, and fashionistas. Featured here are key designers, artists, and personalities including Mana &amp; Gackt, Kokusyoku Sumire, Ayako-S, Koitsukihime, Gloomy Bear, and many others.

Japanese Goth

Arts & Photography

Godoy, Tiffany

Photography & Video

Universe

This postcard collection features cutting-edge art from ten Japanese female artists. Postcard Book cover art 2003 Chinatsu Ban/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Coutesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery.

Drop Dead Cute Postcard Book: 30 Postcards from the New Generation of Women Artists in Japan

Chronicle Books+

See/ Saw: Connections Between Japanese Art Then and Now

Wada, Kyoko

A book that equally illuminates and inspires, Art Work reveals the artistic notetaking habits of an astonishing range of artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, and other creators by granting rare access to the journal pages and other visual materials they use to capture and foster their work. Twenty-five creatorsincluding Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, Louise Bourgeois, Will Self, Richard Serra, Blek le Rat, Tony Kushner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Merce Cunningham, and othersare profiled through a generous selection of images and essays that give context to their work in general as well as to the project being illustrated. Materials featured encompass literal notebooks, a blizzard of Post-it notes, chalkboards, the marks recorded on the walls of a sculptor's studio, and beyond, demonstrating and exploring for students and artists the boundless range of the creative process.

Art Work: Seeing Inside the Creative Process

The public profile of the Japanese photography book has recently boomed, from near-complete obscurity to great desirability. And not only for the aficionados. Photobooks that once were entirely unknown outside Japan (except to a few well-informed scholars and collectors) now sell at astronomical prices at auctions and online. And yet the photobook has been central to the development of Japanese photography, particularly in its postwar phase. To sketch the stages of this boom: 1999's Fotografia Publica included just one Japanese photobook, Kiyoishi Koishi's Early Summer Nerves of 1937, plus two photo magazines from the 1930s, Nippon and Koga; Andrew Roth's The Book of 101 Books (2001) listed four seminal titles by Hosoe, Kawada, Araki and Moriyama; but it was not until 2004, with the first volume of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's indispensable The Photobook: A History, that it began to be clear what a rich body of work awaited excavation. Jap

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s

Kaneko, Ryuichi

Aperture

First published in Japan in 1993, Nobuyoshi Araki’s The Banquet (Shokuji) offers a moving tribute to the photographer’s late wife, Yoko, through a photo-diary of the food they shared together in the last months of her life. The book is composed of three related sections: commercial color photographs of meals shot by Araki from 1985 onwards, using a ring flash and a macro lens; a (written) food diary; and black-and-white photographs taken at home, using only available light, a series Araki began after doctors told his wife she had only a month to live. As Martin Parr and Gerry Badger observe, “The obvious metaphor is to suggest that the color was leaving Araki’s world, but his intentions are not quite so simple. The retreat from color is a retreat from realism to romanticism....” This deeply personal diary of loss is here reprinted in its entirety along with an essay by Ivan Vartanian.Errata Editions' Books on Books series is an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints or facsimiles but complete studies of the original books. Each volume in the series presents the entire content, page for page, of an original master bookwork which, up until now, has been too rare or expensive for most to experience. Through a mix of classic and contemporary titles, this series spans the breadth of photographic practice as it has appeared on the printed page and allows further study of the creation and meanings of these great works of art. Each volume in the series contains illustrations of every page in the original photobook, a new essay by an established writer on photography, production notes about the creation of the original edition and biographical and bibliographical information about each artist.

Nobuyoshi Araki: The Banquet: Books on Books No. 15

Ladd, Jeffrey

Errata Editions

Displaying an amazing array of imaginative work - lovingly handcrafted or pushing the boundaries of tools and technology - TypoGraphics demonstrates how cultural and commercial context influences type design. The book also explores how type makes pictures as well as words, and how a new closer relationship between the practice of graphic design and typography is essential for the profession's progress.

Typo-Graphics: The Art and Science of Type Design in Context

Graphic Design

Rotovision

Featuring some of Andy Warhol's first gold- and silver-foil renderings, rubber-stamp drawings and early erotic portraits, this volume also includes an introduction to the artist and an extensive chronology of events in this pivotal period of Warhol's career, from 1949 to 1960.

Andy Warhol: Drawings and Illustrations of the 1950s

Edizioni Charta Srl

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