Publisher/沖積舎

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This photo collection features Kitazono Katsue (1902-1978), a leading figure in Japanese avant-garde poetry. Kitazono Katsue began his career as a poet, participating in the Shinko Art Movement from the Taisho to the early Showa eras. Influenced by Surrealism, he developed a unique style of poetry that treated words like objects. He continued to publish his poetry until his death through the VOU Club, which he founded in 1935, and its journal, VOU. This book is a collection of Kitazono's photographic poems, "Plastic Poems." Yoshihisa Tsuruoka, the book's editor, writes that "Kitazono Katsue began to consider the expression of poetry and the image of the camera on the same level after the war," and that "he believed that the history of poetry should end with the ballpoint pen, and that poetry can connect to the future by choosing a different medium." Kitazono created objects out of familiar materials, such as scraps of paper resembling magazines and newspapers, stones, and thread, and then photographed them to create artworks. The abstract, sometimes collage-like works have a unique rhythm and are somewhat reminiscent of Dick Bruna's paperbacks, making them enjoyable to look at from a design perspective. The first edition was published in 1992 as a hardcover, while this is a softcover edition published in 2014.