Publisher/田畑書店

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"Wordless Thoughts: Notes on Things, Space, and Images" is a collection of works by Taki Koji, one of Japan's leading postwar art critics and renowned for his architecture and photography critiques. Taki was a member of the legendary Provoke group, a group that remains influential to this day, and whose unique lineup included visual provocateurs Takuma Nakahira, Daido Moriyama, and Yutaka Takanashi, as well as verbal provocateurs Takahiko Okada and Koji Taki. This book, a collection of critical essays published by Tabata Shoten, the same publisher as Provoke's final book, "First, Abandon the Realm of Verisimilitude" (1970), is likely Taki's first book by himself. It brings together in one volume the writings he made for "First, Abandon the Realm of Verisimilitude" and other magazines published during the same period, such as "Design," "Shinkenchiku," "SD," and "Asahi Camera." Traversing the realms of "visual thinking" such as photography, architecture, the body, and cities, the book explores forms of knowledge that cannot be reduced to words and discusses how seeing, feeling, and remembering construct the world. This book can be seen as a culmination of Taki's thought, which attempts to bridge the gap between reason and emotion, and is a tranquil yet penetrating work where philosophy, photography theory, and art criticism organically intertwine.