KYOSAI
The procession of the hundred demons.
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| N° d'inventaire | 29785 |
| Format | 28.50 x 17.50 |
| Détails | 110p., Japanese binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782809716399 |
In Japan, too, nighttime breeds monsters. When humans close their eyelids, creatures, each more extraordinary than the last, frightening and comical, move in procession before the morning light disperses them and makes them flee.
Kyosai (1831-1889), this brilliant painter who combined the most assured technical mastery with a spirit of freedom very rare in his time, reinvented a tradition which dates back to at least the 16th century, by delivering a breathtaking version of the Night Procession of the Hundred Demons.
At the head runs an army of skeletons chased by monsters, from a chest emerges a host of demons, sandals, pans or gongs with arms and legs, toothed frogs, umbrellas topped with a single eye, elephant-headed lions... it is a whole phantasmagoria of the bizarre and the grotesque that parades before our eyes, drawing largely from the abundant repertoire of yôkai, tengu, kappa and oni of Japanese folklore.
The painter's whimsical virtuosity is revealed in all its prodigality, a macabre and hilarious parade to be discovered on the sleepless night of a single page, before it vanishes in the sun of reason.
Kyosai (1831-1889), this brilliant painter who combined the most assured technical mastery with a spirit of freedom very rare in his time, reinvented a tradition which dates back to at least the 16th century, by delivering a breathtaking version of the Night Procession of the Hundred Demons.
At the head runs an army of skeletons chased by monsters, from a chest emerges a host of demons, sandals, pans or gongs with arms and legs, toothed frogs, umbrellas topped with a single eye, elephant-headed lions... it is a whole phantasmagoria of the bizarre and the grotesque that parades before our eyes, drawing largely from the abundant repertoire of yôkai, tengu, kappa and oni of Japanese folklore.
The painter's whimsical virtuosity is revealed in all its prodigality, a macabre and hilarious parade to be discovered on the sleepless night of a single page, before it vanishes in the sun of reason.
Kyosai (1831-1889), this brilliant painter who combined the most assured technical mastery with a spirit of freedom very rare in his time, reinvented a tradition which dates back to at least the 16th century, by delivering a breathtaking version of the Night Procession of the Hundred Demons.
At the head runs an army of skeletons chased by monsters, from a chest emerges a host of demons, sandals, pans or gongs with arms and legs, toothed frogs, umbrellas topped with a single eye, elephant-headed lions... it is a whole phantasmagoria of the bizarre and the grotesque that parades before our eyes, drawing largely from the abundant repertoire of yôkai, tengu, kappa and oni of Japanese folklore.
The painter's whimsical virtuosity is revealed in all its prodigality, a macabre and hilarious parade to be discovered on the sleepless night of a single page, before it vanishes in the sun of reason.