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"The Discovery of Design" 1966 Sanichi Publishing Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
Arguing that visual communication through "Katachi (shapes,forms)" impacts human minds, the author discusses artistic design's usefulness in contemporary society. Emphasizing the meanings and discovery of design, the book is an anthology of universal design theories that make sharp remarks on contemporary culture.
Available through Sanichi Revival Series 1991
Price: 2,300 Yen (including sales tax) ISBN4-380-91234-5
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"What Can Design Do?" 1969 Tabata Publishing Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
The book analyses post-war Japanese design development influenced by modern western design and discusses the original source underlying the Japanese aesthetic sense.
Out of print. Please contact used book sellers for availability.
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"Kiyoshi Awazu Scrapbook" 1971 Tabata Publishing Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
A collection of Kiyoshi Awazu's works up to 1970 including his design works, illustrations, sketches, mangas, etc. "Scrapbook" also contains essays. (Newly released papers including "shikisai no jikogenso" (personal illusions of colors)
Rare hard cover made with corrugated cardboard.
Available
(only few copies left)Tabata Publishing Co. URL
Price: 2,500 Yen
ISBN4-8038-0028-6
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"Design Yako" (Nightly Lectures on Design)
1974 Chikuma Shobo Publishing Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
The author traces the future of design springing from artistic sensitivity and ideas, and presents a vision of Japanese culture and design beyond modernism.
Out of print.
Please contact used book sellers for availability.
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"Thinking Eye" 1975 Kawade Shobo Publishing Co. |
* Texts in the book are in Japanese language only.
* Click the menu“Thinking Eye”button on the left of the screen for an English translation of selected book contents. The author discusses sensitivity and different modes of thinking as the primitive essence of creation.
Out of print.
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"Book Design of Kiyoshi Awazu" (Art Technique Now Series)
1977 Kawade Shobo Publishing Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
The author unfolds modern design and its methodology and practice through book design. A definitive technique book for visual understanding of the subject.
Available
Price: 2,600 Yen (including sales tax)
ISBN4-3097-1690-3
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"The Collections of Kiyoshi Awazu Vol, 1,2,3."
1977 Kodansha Publishing Co.
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"Homage to Antonio Gaudi" 1981 Gendai Kikakushitsu
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* Available in Japanese lauguage
The author discusses connections between architectural structure and ethos through Antonio Gaudi's masterpieces such as Sagrada Familia and Colonia Guel and includes a chronological table of Gaudi's works. A guide for understanding Gaudi's modern art, architecture, origin of design and his fascinating ability to integrate humanity and nature. The author includes chronological table of social/historical events in Spain's Catalonia region. Many graphics and photographs.
Available
Hanmoto URL
Price 2,100 Yen (including sales tax) ISBN4-7738-8101-1
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"Design Junyu" 1982 Gendai Kikakushitsu
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* Available in Japanese language
Taking up issues and topics surrounding design such as "beauty of letters", the author unfolds his media theories. Where do concepts of Awazu design come from? The unique world of Awazu design reveals from his own essays and dialogues with Yuji Takahashi, Taeko Tomioka, Shuji Terayama and Andrzej Wajda.
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Price: 2,100 Yen (including sales tax) ISBN4-7738-820-0 |
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"Kiyoshi Awazu Hachiya Kaidanshu"
1985 Bunka Shuppankyoku Publishing Co.
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* Available only in Japanese language
A collection of dialogues with eight artists (Yosuke Yamashita, Setsu Asakura, Kisho Kurokawa, Shigesato Itoi, Katsumi Asaba, Katsuhiko Hibino, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Ryoichi Enomoto) that happened during Awazu's one-man show at La Foret Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo.
Out of print.
Please contact used book sellers for availability ISBN4-5793-0242-7
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"The Works of Kiyoshi Awazu 1949-1989"
1989 Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishing Co.
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*In Japanese and English
A collection of Awazu's works from 1949 to 1989. Forty years of creation of the artists who gazed the epoch with humanistic eyes. Over 500 works are gathered in this collection including early sketches and contemporary paintings, sculpture and environmental design.
Out of print.
Please contact used book sellers for availability. ISBN4-3092-6121-3
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"Kiyoshi Awazu (ggg books)" 1994 Ginza Graphic Gallery/Trans Art
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* Japanese and English
World Graphic Design Series Volume 11. A collection of Awazu's diverse works including posters, prints, sculptures, and environmental design spanning 30 years between 1960 and 1990.
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Price: 1,233 Yen (including sales tax) ISBN4-9249-5611-2
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"Mojishigen Shokeimoji Yugho" (Pilgrimage to Hieroglyphics, an Inception of Written Characters) 2000 Tokyo Shoseki Publishing Co. |
Modern art and design share commonness with ancient hieroglyphs. The author pays pilgrimage to the Chinese characters as an inception of human written language by describing their historical stages from the pictorial signs in the ancient era to the Chinese characters as a written language of today.
Included are questions for and conversation with hieroglyphist Shizuka Shirakawa. More than 900 characters including Kokotsumoji and Kinmon. Many graphics.
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Price: 2,940 Yen ISBN4-4877-9625-3 |
"Rock Art-Myths and Imagination"
2002 Tokyo Printing Museum/Film Art Co. |
* Available only in Japanese language
The author reasons that rock art is an origin of visual communication. He and NARA Expeditions Crews traveled approximately 4500 kilometers to the sources of this mythical world and collected data on rock art sites in which pre-historic North American natives carved and painted images on rock surfaces and in caverns.
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Price: 2,310 Yen (including sales tax) ISBN4-8459-0233-8 |
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