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Peter MacMillan: Mount Fuji Metamorphoses |
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Lucy Birmingham |
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"I've always been mystified by how I have an interest in creating visual images and how I also have the urge to write poetry, which seem like very different tasks," reveals Peter MacMillan. "But when I was [recently] watching a piano performance by Gen Tomura, up close, I noticed that not only were his hands going in completely different directions, they were making completely different sounds, but together, in harmony. I felt that was two aspects of myself." more... |
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Plot: Process of Design -- Not Always About the Product
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Nicolai Kruger |
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The GA Bookstore and Gallery, located in Sendagaya, Tokyo, is a place where lovers of design and architecture can easily lose an afternoon. GA Japan is the ubiquitous publisher known for its monthly architectural magazine of the same name, as well as its themed retrospectives and dense tomes dedicated to the work of prolific practitioners. more... |
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Tokaido Highway Revisited: Hiroshige's 53 Stations at the MOA Museum |
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Alan Gleason |
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The renowned woodcut series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido is justifiably hailed as the high-water mark of the career of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), and of landscape ukiyo-e in general. Less well known is the fact that he revisited the series dozens of times, producing as many as 30 versions in response to popular demand. more... |
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