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Eikoh Hosoe Ba-ra-kei [Killed by Roses] Ltd Edn

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Title: Ba-ra-kei [Killed by Roses].
Author: Hosoe, Eikoh
Description: Introduction by novelist Yukio Mishima. Illustrated with reproductions of Hosoe's photographs of Mishima. (Folio)16½x10¾, pictorial cloth, acetate jackets, original box. One of 1500 copies signed by both Hosoe and Mishima on inserted slip. First Edition."The photos that make up the body of the book are inky, sometimes high-contrast gravures that bleed right to the edge of the page and often extend across the entire open spread, giving extra impact to images that are already quite arresting. Even if the subject of Hosoe's photographs weren't the author Yukio Mishima, the book would be remarkable for its humid mix of eroticism and myth, queer kitsch and high art. But Mishima, Japan's most celebrated and controversial modern novelist, was also a brilliant provocateur and his presence here turns Killed By Roses into a charged collaboration between artists testing one another's limits." (Roth 101, page 164).
Heading: zzbPlace Published: [Tokyo]
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Date Published: [1963]