Takashi Murakami : The Octopus Eats its Own Leg

'This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history.... a true essential for collectors and fans alike' - ArtFixDaily.com

A definitive survey of the paintings of Japanese contemporary artist Murakami

Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) is one of contemporary art's most widely recognised exponents. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami's paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, this book is the first major monograph of Murakami in a decade.

Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami's work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Through essays and illustrations many previously unpublished, it explores the artist's relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address Murakami's output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history and is recommended for collectors and fans alike.

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