Marc Petitjean

Back to Japan

The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi

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From the critically acclaimed author of The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris, a fascinating, intimate portrait of one of Japan's most influential and respected textile artists. Writer, filmmaker, and photographer Marc Petitjean finds himself in Kyoto one fine morning with his camera, to film a man who will become his friend: Kunihiko Moriguchi, a master kimono painter and Living National Treasure-like his father before him. As a young decorative arts student in the 1960s, Moriguchi rubbed shoulders with the cultural elite of Paris and befriended Balthus, who would influence his artistic career. Back in Japan, he would reinvigorate the traditional… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hunter, Adriana (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-63542-091-3
EAN: 9781635420913
Produktnummer: 35712118
Verlag: Other Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Marc Petitjean is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer. He has directed several documentaries, including From Hiroshima to Fukushima, on Dr. Shuntaro Hida, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Living Treasure, about Japanese kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi; and Zones grises, on his own search for information about the life of his father, Michel Petitjean, after his death. Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated nearly ninety books, including Véronique Olmi's Bakhita and Hervé Le Tellier's Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.