Ma, Space-Time in Japan
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in 1979 and curated by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. According to a review in the New York Times, “[the exhibit] is an ambitious undertaking dealing with a major theme. It is no less than an attempt to explain and illustrate a basic tenet of Japanese culture that is also a primary aspect of the Japanese sensibility the concept of space and time as a unified idea and experience. The exhibition takes on the formidable challenge of presenting an abstraction in visual terms...It is a difficult show, which takes a bit of work to understand, and then it rewards the viewer with the unfolding of unfamiliar and infinitely intriguing ideas. If possible, it would be good to get the handsome and informative catalogue in advance, or at least, to read it before [a] second, or third, visit." Contributors and participants include Aiko Miyawaki, Shiro Kuramata, Issey Miyake, Seigow Matsuoka, Yukio Futagawa, Shuji Yamada, Jiro Taksmatsu, Sotoji Nakamura, and Kishin Shinoyama, with art direction by Kohei Sugiura and a short essay ("Discreet Gods") by Claude Levi-Strauss. Quarto, 61 pages, glossy printed wrappers. Illustrations in black-and-white. Light soiling to wrappers with a small non-displaced chip at the spine of one wrapper. Minor bumping to one outer edge. Contents clean and tight.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in 1979 and curated by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. According to a review in the New York Times, “[the exhibit] is an ambitious undertaking dealing with a major theme. It is no less than an attempt to explain and illustrate a basic tenet of Japanese culture that is also a primary aspect of the Japanese sensibility the concept of space and time as a unified idea and experience. The exhibition takes on the formidable challenge of presenting an abstraction in visual terms...It is a difficult show, which takes a bit of work to understand, and then it rewards the viewer with the unfolding of unfamiliar and infinitely intriguing ideas. If possible, it would be good to get the handsome and informative catalogue in advance, or at least, to read it before [a] second, or third, visit." Contributors and participants include Aiko Miyawaki, Shiro Kuramata, Issey Miyake, Seigow Matsuoka, Yukio Futagawa, Shuji Yamada, Jiro Taksmatsu, Sotoji Nakamura, and Kishin Shinoyama, with art direction by Kohei Sugiura and a short essay ("Discreet Gods") by Claude Levi-Strauss. Quarto, 61 pages, glossy printed wrappers. Illustrations in black-and-white. Light soiling to wrappers with a small non-displaced chip at the spine of one wrapper. Minor bumping to one outer edge. Contents clean and tight.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in 1979 and curated by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. According to a review in the New York Times, “[the exhibit] is an ambitious undertaking dealing with a major theme. It is no less than an attempt to explain and illustrate a basic tenet of Japanese culture that is also a primary aspect of the Japanese sensibility the concept of space and time as a unified idea and experience. The exhibition takes on the formidable challenge of presenting an abstraction in visual terms...It is a difficult show, which takes a bit of work to understand, and then it rewards the viewer with the unfolding of unfamiliar and infinitely intriguing ideas. If possible, it would be good to get the handsome and informative catalogue in advance, or at least, to read it before [a] second, or third, visit." Contributors and participants include Aiko Miyawaki, Shiro Kuramata, Issey Miyake, Seigow Matsuoka, Yukio Futagawa, Shuji Yamada, Jiro Taksmatsu, Sotoji Nakamura, and Kishin Shinoyama, with art direction by Kohei Sugiura and a short essay ("Discreet Gods") by Claude Levi-Strauss. Quarto, 61 pages, glossy printed wrappers. Illustrations in black-and-white. Light soiling to wrappers with a small non-displaced chip at the spine of one wrapper. Minor bumping to one outer edge. Contents clean and tight.
