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Jonathan Meese - Mishima is Back @ Tomio Koyama Gallery
Artist Jonathan Meesepresented a Mishima-related installation at the Tomio Koyama Gallery from 05/Sep/2009 – 03/Oct/2009.
See selected photos from the installation here.
click opera – Is Jonathan Meese a fascist?
Photography show featuring one of Eikoh Hosoe’s famous images of Mishima.
The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography: Sandra Phillips and W.S. di Piero in Conversation
Tags: eikoh hosoe
http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/09/cenks-skeleton-tattoo-pays-homage-to.html
Tattooed by Myles Karr, Brooklyn. Found on “Tattoosday.”
Tags: st. sebastian, tattoo, tattoosday, yukio mishima
I posted a shirt I made a few weeks ago, here are two designs Ouraken has uploaded to a print-on-demand site:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/ouraken/t-shirts
Tags: headless saber god, mishima t-shirt, ouraken, redbubble, yukio mishima
Post about graphic design, a cover for an edition of Forbidden Colors and Tadanori Yokoo, poster artist who also did this poster of Yukio Mishima.
More on Tadanori Yokoo here.
h/t Troy Chambers
"Sincerity" T-Shirt - Yukio Mishima's severed head
I did a block print of this basic design about a year ago. Several of the prints are for sale at this week’s “Germophilia” show in Philly. There are a few unframed ones going for like $20, as well as a framed one with daubs of my own blood for $50, so if you’re interested, contact Kevin Slaughter.
However, block prints are not so great for t-shirts, but I really liked the design, so I updated it by making the face more of a half-tone graphic (it’s Mishima’s severed head, btw).
I probably will not be selling these…too labor intensive to be profitable on this scale. I was just tired of wearing my staple plain black t-shirts all the time, and wanted something that related to my own work.
The quote on the back will read:
“His was a battlefield without glory, a battlefield where none could display deeds of valor: it was the front line of the spirit.”
- Yukio Mishima, Patriotism
The full quote is here:
Tags: jack donovan, sincerity, yukio mishima, yukio mishima head
Two of my own Mishima-related pieces of artwork will be featured in this upcoming show in Philadelphia, PA.
Friday, August 7, 2009 Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Jennifer Bates Gallery @ Germ Books
2005 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125… Read More
The photographer who took the famous “Ordeal by Roses” shot of Mishima will be having an exhibition in June at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan.
Eikoh Hosoe
http://www.eikoh-hosoe.jp/index.html
and on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikoh_Hosoe
Here’s an article about another exhibition that too place a few years ago.
Japan Times: EIKOH HOSOE
Photographer chronicles an alternate Japanese history
Tags: eikoh hosoe, ordeal by roses
