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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

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This book is the official catalog of the exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture Through Windows, jointly held by Window Research Institute and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT).

This exhibition remarked on the windows that have been intimately connected to our daily lives since ancient times, assembled a group of various works dealing with windows, and invaluable drawings by architects.

• Details
  • Published by Heibonsha Limited, Publishers
  • Softcover, 18.2 x 25.7 cm
  • 205 Pages
  • ¥ 2,500
  • 2019
  • ISBN-10 4582207189
  • ISBN-13 9784582207187
  • Text in Japanese and English
• Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • The World of Windows
  • Architecture and Art as Seen from a Window
  • Windows in 20th Century Art Ⅰ
  • [Column 1] Who's Looking at What?: Robert Doisneau's Vitrine, Galerie Romi, Paris
  • [Column 2] Where Is Reiko?: Kishida Ryusei's Reiko, Five Years Old
  • Windows in 20th Century Art Ⅱ
  • People Looking Out of Windows Ⅰ
  • Inside and Outside Windows: Narahara Ikko's Domains
  • Window of the World: Xijing Men's Chapter 3: Welcome to Xijing - Xijing Immigration Service
  • People Looking Out of Window Ⅱ: Józef Robakowski's From My Window
  • People Looking Out of Window Ⅲ: Tadeusz Kantor's School Class - Closed Work
  • Windows as Screens
  • The Kinematics of Windows
  • Light through the Window
  • Window on Hope: Gerhard Richter's 8 Glass Panels
  • House of Windows: Sou Fujimoto's Living within/ without Windows
  • View from a Window (Remix) Kurama Mika
  • The Picture-as-Window Theory Igarashi Yaro
  • Biographies
  • List of Exhibits
  • Credits
  • Exhibition Information