No Pain No Gain: Body, Violence, Pain, Ritual - Softcover

Morimura, Yasumasa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3903172286 ISBN 13: 9783903172289

Publisher: Schlebrugge.Editor, 2019

Synopsis

<div>Morimura has been working as a conceptual photographer and filmmaker for more than three decades and has become one of the most important representatives of &#8220;staged photography&#8221; and Appropriation Art. With the use of props, costumes, makeup, and digital manipulation, he has turned himself into subjects of the Western artistic and cultural canon. Through restaging and reinvention of iconic photographs and paintings of art history, Morimura comments on Japan&#8217;s relationship (especially in the 1960s and 70s) with the absorption and integration of Western culture. His works challenge the viewer&#8217;s gaze, question identity and gender constructions, and are therefore also an artistic reflection on media. The catalog&#160;also contains a talk Morimura held for the opening, entitled <i>The two &#8220;I&#8217;s&#8221; roaming around inside of me</i>.</div>

About this title

About the Author

<div><b>Yasumasa Morimura</b> (born&#160;1951) is a Japanese appropriation artist.&#160;<b>Hubert Klocker </b>(born&#160;1955) is an Austrian art, theater, and film scholar and curator focusing on Vienna Actionism, performance theory, and performative tendencies in contemporary art.</div>

Edition details

• Publisher: Schlebrugge.Editor
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3903172286
• ISBN 13: 9783903172289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Klocker Hubert