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Masao Okabe : is there a future for our past? : the dark face of the light

by Chihiro Minato, Masao Okabe

Centred on frottage artworks created from rubbings of a Hiroshima railway platform, this bilingual volume documents a unique process of historical preservation. It features photographs of works from Japan and Europe, accompanied by English and Japanese commentary.

Accession 3233 ISBN 9784130831505 Publisher Japan Foundation and University of Tokyo Press
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Catalogue of Masao Okabe's installation at the Venice Biennale, featuring 1,400 frottages and pressed flowers, collected over a period of 9 years from the Ujina railway station in Hiroshima.

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Masao Okabe, Chihiro Minato
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