Kikuji Kawada Theatrum Mundi

E-129: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan. 2003. 244 pgs. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white and four-color plates. Text in Japanese and English. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelfwear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Essays (in Japanese and English) by Mark Holborn and Kyoko Jimbo. Includes a list of plates, exhibition checklist, audio transcripts, biography, list of major works and bibliography. Published on the occasion of a major 2003 retrospective exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A comprehensive catalogue featuring Kawada's major projects and lesser-known works: The Map, Sacré Atavism, parco dei mostri, The Castle: Ludwig II, Microcosmos, The Hell, The Dream of the Stones, Grotesque Garden, WAX-MAN-TOWN, The Globe Theater, Los Caprichos, The Last Cosmology, Car Maniac and Eureka. Also includes thumbnail facsimiles of the first edition of Chizu / The Map, 1965. E-129; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages .