Publisher/沖積舎

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This is a photo book by Kitazono Katsue (1902-1978), a representative poet of Japanese avant-garde poetry. Kitazono Katsue began his career as a poet by participating in the emerging art movement from the Taisho to the beginning of the Showa era. After being influenced by surrealism, he developed his own unique style of poetry, treating words like objects. He published 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 editor of this book, writes that Kitazono "started thinking after the war about capturing poetic expression and camera images on the same level," and that he believed that "the history of poetry should end with the ballpoint pen, and poetry can connect to the future by choosing a different expression." Kitazono created objects out of familiar materials, such as pieces of paper that appear to be magazines or newspapers, stones, and thread, and photographed them to create his works. 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. Rare first edition hardcover.