photobook
- Museum number
- 2007,3007.20
- Title
- Object: Kakyoku 花曲 (Flower Rondo)
- Description
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Photobook. One volume. First edition. Text in English and Japanese.
- Production date
- 1997
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 centimetres (covers)
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Width: 22.70 centimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
- A continuation of Mapplethorpe's theme of sexual flowers. However there is a certain violence to the colours that is entirely Araki's. As it says on the obi "It's Flower Fuckin'!".
(Titus Boeder, 4/07)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 Oct 10-2008 Feb 17, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2010 Oct- 2011 Feb, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2014 Oct- 2015 Apr, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2007,3007.20
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: PB.20 (Photobook number)