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"Drop Dead Cute" showcases the work of 10 cutting-edge female Japanese artists whose art combines the pop charge of Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara with a thrilling personal mixture of sweetness and power. This next wave of painters and illustrators from the red-hot Japanese art scene blend aspects of manga, anime, and traditional art with their own idiosyncratic visions to create work that is international in appeal yet uniquely Japanese. This gorgeous book features profiles of the artists based on fresh interviews, along with a generous survey of their art. Also including new work by pioneering art world superstar Yayoi Kusama that salutes these extraordinary young artists, "Drop Dead Cute" is a must-have for fans of Nara and Murakami, as well as anyone interested in contemporary art and pop culture.
interior image: Chiho Aoshima, Japanese Apricot 2, 2000. Inkjet printer on paper. 104.9 x 74.9 cm. Copyright 2005 Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Showcasing new art work from japan,
By Junko "Bex" (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drop Dead Cute (Paperback)
This is a collection of new and upcoming female artists in japan all their work is unique from one anothers one in partiular -Chiho Aoshima has some beautiful drawings in manga style (similar but not the same as junko mizuno) great reference for inspiration for your own art work or just to pick up and enjoy
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful Book,
By Mouse (Manchester) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drop Dead Cute (Paperback)
I used this book for artist reference and its just wonderful. Its a collection based on Japanese female artists who have influenced many other artists around them. The book is colourful and unusual and definately inspiring
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3.8 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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"Drop Dead Cute" is both drop-dead gorgeous and disturbing,
By Merrily Baird - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drop Dead Cute (Paperback)
"Drop Dead Cute: The New Generation of Women Artists in Japan" is quite simply a book that is drop-dead gorgeous. Ten artists--most in their early thirties--are profiled, and I would, figuratively speaking of course, kill to have the work of any hanging on my walls. As Ivan Vartanian, who has put this book together, notes in his introduction, most of the art reflects the so-called "super-flat" style that is all the rage among Japan's cutting-edge artists. This two-dimensional graphic style is associated with Japanese manga (adult comics) and anime (animated films), and in a number of cases the renderings of female faces here owe a great deal to the childlike, wide-eyed models of manga and anime. Another recurring theme in this art is the emphasis on animals. One artist, for example, repeatedly uses elephants as her theme with a style that resembles a cross between Hello Kitty and Babar. In large part it is this prevalence of lovable animals, child-like faces, and various dream-like themes that has led Vartanian and others to label the work of these artists "kawaii," the Japanese word for cute.
Personally I would be more inclined to apply the word "kowai," which means "frightening" in Japanese, to the work presented in "Drop Dead Cute." There is an overwhelming sense of loneliness and alienation in this graphic work, a general absence of men and of family life, all sorts of female grotesqueries, and juxtapositions of the horrific and the idyllic. Take, for example, the graphically-stunning work of Chiho Aoshima. In one print she has what is perhaps the most beautiful rendering of a Japanese plum tree that I have ever seen, and this tree in blossom is mixed with images of the mythical paradise of Mount Horai. Stranded in the high branches of the tree, meanwhile, is a naked woman bound in ropes. Another artist, Tabaimo, who works in a take-off of the ukiyoe style, has a subway car scene with a baby abandoned like a package on an upper luggage rack, a stack of dismembered forearms, and a man wrapped like a piece of sushi. What this all means is only touched on lightly by Vartanian. He has provided a mere one page of text by way of understanding each artist, and his introduction is also just a teaser in hinting at the darker side of this art. For a fuller understanding of how an emphasis on childish themes is coexisting with a sense of alienation in Japan today, the reader of "Drop Dead Cute" would do well to acquire the more scholarly and probing "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture." 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
nice images, but...,
By Kira - Published on Amazon.com
There is very little text in this book.. it is mainly a coffee table book. The essay is by Ivan Vartanian, who I've never heard of and is not really an academic author or scholar. I found it to be a somewhat shallow and somewhat stereotypical discussion of the artists included. The entries for each artist were also very brief. The images, however speak for themselves, and there are quite a few in this slender book. They included several full-color full-page comics by Aya Takano for example. The images are not really "definitive" and they should be supplemental to other reproductions of the artists' works.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Great collection of diverse artists,
By Ellen Mueller "Ellen Mueller" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drop Dead Cute (Paperback)
I really enjoyed the diversity of styles presented. High quality images. Well done.
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