{"product_id":"yukio-mishima-the-death-of-a-man","title":"Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003eYukio Mishima: The Death of a Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Death of a Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of masterworks such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eForbidden Colors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese \"everyman.\" In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKishin Shinoyama\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis one of the titans of Japanese postwar photography. In 2018 Louis Vuitton reprinted his landmark 1981 work on the Silk Road.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e96 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.8 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.56 x 0.64 x 12.02 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48795418493184,"sku":"112005","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0188\/3776\/files\/71s_BcEltrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781634335","url":"https:\/\/asianartmuseumstore.myshopify.com\/products\/yukio-mishima-the-death-of-a-man","provider":"Cha May Ching Museum Boutique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}