Kume Min Ju Ro Modernism No Kiro Ni Tatsu " Reibai

[Machine Translation] This book is the first study of Western-style painter Kume Tamijuro, who died at the age of 30 after encountering the Great Kanto Earthquake. Based almost exclusively in London during World War I, he interacted with poets Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats and came into contact with avant-garde vorticism (Vorticism), but he also developed an interest in the occult, and as a result, after returning to Japan, he called himself a "mediumist" and exhibited his work in New York and Paris with a booklet of his conception translated into English. He presented his works in New York and Paris with a pamphlet of his ideas translated into English. This work clearly depicts the historical background of the Western art world from the 1910s to the 1920s, and reveals the whole picture of Tamijuro Kume, a pioneer of Japanese modernism.

本書は関東大震災に遭遇して三〇歳で亡くなった洋画家久米民十郎の最初の研究書である。第一次世界大戦中ほぼロンドンを拠点にして、詩人エズラ・パウンド、W.B.イェイツらと交流して、前衛的なヴォーティシズム(渦巻派)に接する一方で、オカルトにも関心を深めた結果、帰国後自ら「霊媒派」を名乗り、その構想を英訳した小冊子とともにニューヨークやパリで作品を披露した。一九一〇～一九二〇年代の欧米芸術界の時代背景を克明に描きながら、日本のモダニズムの先駆者久米民十郎の全貌を明らかにした労作である。