TAKASHI MURAKAMI/ THE OCTOPUS EATS ITS OWN LEG

Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakamis work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Thro ugh essays and illustrations many previously unpublishedit explores the artists relationship to the tradition of Japanese paintin g and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address M urakamis output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the T okyo art scen...[Read more]