Tokyo Comedy

Kyoto: Korinsha Press & Co, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Very good- to fine condition. Quarto. unpaginated. Original stiff light yellow wraps, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with yellow lettering on cover, orange and black on spine. With text sections at front and back of volume, printed to yellow paper. "The artist Nobuyoshi Araki works without a safety net, so to speak, every utterance turns into the spontaneous and irrevocable expression of his loneliness vis-à-vis the wilderness of sexuality" (Werner Würtinger, Vienna Secession). Illustrated with full page b/w photographs throughout. Biographical data and exhibition history at rear. Very light wear to wraps.