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BOOK

Hitogatami

Kyara, Takahashi Junichi

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Release Date July 28, 2008
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Catalog No.NEOBK-498052
JAN/ISBN 9784839359492
Product Type BOOK
Product Package Size (Estimated) 18.6 x 21 x 1.4cm
Pages 79

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Description

[Machine Translation] In this collection of photographs, the work of Kyara, a doll artist who has a doll wife, was photographed by Junichi Takahashi, a photographer who has been photographing people in New York. While looking at the doll as an object and the Japanese beauty, unique spirituality, and animism that is contained in it, he also throws in his technical presentation as a photographer. Many of the dolls photographed also have a strong focus on the beauty of Japan, which is being lost, based on the sense that the dolls have a soul. The dolls are made from the period when the people wore kimonos (Meiji, Taisho, and prewar), and traditional painting techniques used for Japanese dolls are also incorporated. Kyara's work, spherical-jointed dolls, as the name implies, are dolls with spherical body joints that allow for free movement. It was Hans Vermeer who transformed the traditional doll technique into modern art, but it was Japan that developed this technique in its own unique way. This reflects the latent animism and aesthetics cultivated by the Japanese people.

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Description in Japanese

人形見 (ヒトガタミ) / 伽羅 たかはしじゅんいち

この写真集では人形の妻を持つ人形作家の伽羅の作品を、ニューヨークで人を撮り続ける写真家たかはしじゅんいちが撮りおろした。人形というものを、そこに込められた日本の美や独特の精神性、アニミズムを見つめながら、さらに写真家としての技術提示を投げ掛けている。また、撮影された人形も、魂が入るという感覚の元、失われつつある日本の美に強いこだわりを持ったものが多い。人形には民衆が着物を着ていた時代(明治・大正・戦前)の物を使用し、日本人形に用いられている伝統的な塗装技術も取り入れられている。伽羅の作品、球体関節人形はその名のとおり体の関節に球体を入れることによって、自由な動きを可能にした人形のことである。伝統的な人形技法を現代美術に転換させたのはハンスベルメールであるが、これを独自に展開させていったのは日本における特徴と言えるだろう。そこには、日本人が培った潜在的なアニミズム、美学が反映している。

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