Toshio Saeki: Death Book

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The fourth edition of The Death Book is dedicated to Japanese artist, Toshio Saeki’s archive of rarely published illustration work, that explores scenes of violence, brutality, horror and what lies beneath the surface of Japanese culture.

Saeki’s work is notable for combining traditional Shunga and Yōkai styles with elements of Western art and is characterised by eroticism, death and gore, questioning Japanese ideology and expansionism. Historians often describe Saeki’s work as being closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense’ (ero, guro, nansensu).

 

Toshio Saeki's (1945-2019) drawings are created by using an original method called “chinto printing”. This technique emphasizes the "flatness" composed of "lines" and "coloured surfaces," and gives the work a unique character.

​In recent years, Saeki has had exhibits in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Toronto, Japan, Taipei, all of them being received with much critical acclaim.  ​

Saeki spent his later years in the mountains of Chiba prefecture, drawing, reading, enjoying ikebana of wildflowers; treasuring and loving the activities of everyday life with his wife.

Product details

Title
Toshio Saeki: Death Book
Publication Date
July 2023
Publisher
Baron Books
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Number of Pages
76
Size
11,02 x 12,60 inch
28 x 32 cm

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