Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man - by Kishin Shinoyama (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, <i>The Death of a Man</i> presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.</b> <p/>The author of masterworks such as <i>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion</i> and <i>Forbidden Colors</i>, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.<br>In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese everyman. In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends.<br>Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act. <p/>With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kishin Shinoyama </b>is one of the titans of Japanese postwar photography. In 2018 Louis Vuitton reprinted his landmark 1981 work on the Silk Road.
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