Days in a Life:
The Art of Tetsuya Noda
By Robert Flynn Johnson
$19.95 (softcover)
Combining photo imagery and print making, Japanese artist Tetsuya Noda has spent more than forty years chronicling days in his life through a series of innovative prints. In the 1960s, when photography was rarely used — and viewed with suspicion — by Japanese printmakers, Noda began using an electric mimeograph machine to create a stencil from photographic images that could be attached to a silkscreen. Refined and altered by the artist, the image was then printed on fine Japanese paper with additions of woodblock backgrounds and accents. The resulting hybrid nature of the works was unexpected and unnerving to viewers used to more conventional methods. This catalogue, which includes reproductions of 60 of Noda's prints from from 1968 through 2002, supports the judgment of author Robert Flynn Johnson (curator-in-charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) that "it is Tetsuya Noda who stands as the most original, innovative, and thought-provoking Japanese printmaker of his era."
80 pages, 8 1/2x 10 in., 66 illustrations, ISBN: 0-939117-22-3
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