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1919 Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan - 1986. Known for: Politically charged Surrealist painting addressing wartime trauma, social injustice, and postwar Japanese protest culture.
Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita... Read full biography
Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita developed a practice that confronted the social and political realities of postwar Japan, creating... Read full biography
Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita developed a practice that confronted the social and political realities of postwar Japan, creating imagery marked by an unsettling Surrealist sensibility and direct depictions of violence, psychological tension, and the fractured identities that emerged under the promise of a “New Japan.”. Kikuji... Read full biography
Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita developed a practice that confronted the social and political realities of postwar Japan, creating imagery marked by an unsettling Surrealist sensibility and direct depictions of violence, psychological tension, and the fractured identities that emerged under the promise of a “New Japan.”. Kikuji Yamashita explored Japan’s unresolved Imperialist legacy, the disruptions caused by rapid modernisation, and the country’s shifting postwar relationship with the United States. One of his important works, Omaemoka (1969), depicts a soldier crushed... Read full biography
Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita developed a practice that confronted the social and political realities of postwar Japan, creating imagery marked by an unsettling Surrealist sensibility and direct depictions of violence, psychological tension, and the fractured identities that emerged under the promise of a “New Japan.”. Kikuji Yamashita explored Japan’s unresolved Imperialist legacy, the disruptions caused by rapid modernisation, and the country’s shifting postwar relationship with the United States. One of his important works, Omaemoka (1969), depicts a soldier crushed between monstrous hybrid forms and reflects Yamashita’s concerns about national memory and political influence during a period of renewed optimis... Read full biography
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Kikuji Yamashita was born in 1919 and passed away in 1986. Kikuji Yamashita was a leading figure in postwar Japanese Surrealism and an important participant in the 1950s reportage movement. Yamashita developed a practice that confronted the social and political realities of postwar Japan, creating imagery marked by an unsettling Surrealist sensibility and direct depictions of violence, psychological tension, and the fractured identities that emerged under the promise of a “New Japan.”
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