Yukio Mishima : the death of a man = Otoko no shi / photography by Kishin Shinoyama ; texts by Yukio Mishima and Tadanori Yokoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shinoyama, Kishin, 1940-2024, photographer.

Contributor:

Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, creator, writer of preface.

Yokoo, Tadanori, 1936- writer of added commentary.

David F. & Stephanie B. Simon Collection Endowment.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970--Portraits.

Mishima, Yukio.

Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970.

Staged photography.

Death in art.

Genre:

Photobooks.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Death of a man

Otoko no shi

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, [2020]

Language Note:

Texts by Yukio Mishima and Tadanori Yokoo in Japanese with English translation.

Summary:

The author of masterworks such as 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' and 'Forbidden Colors', Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese everyman. In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the David F. & Stephanie B. Simon Collection Endowment.

ISBN:

9780847868698

0847868699

OCLC:

1144101168