Lyrically Rebellious: The Prints of Onchi Kōshirō

exhibition catalog / artists monograph for the Honolulu Museum of Art
curated by Stephen Salel
essay by Kuwahara Noriko

From Stephen Salel's introduction:
This exhibition commemorates the 70th anniversary of the passing of Onchi Kōshirō (1891–1955), the de facto leader of the creative print movement and one of Japan’s first abstract artists. Over the course of his career, which coincided with the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Pacific War (1941–1945), and the Postwar Allied Occupation (1945–1952), Onchi invented an entire visual language to not only reinterpret traditional genres of realist art such as portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes, but also to illustrate non-visual concepts such as music, poetry, and the spectrum of human emotions.

108 pages
10 x 10 inches