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Volume 5
Part 1 of Multi-Part Work
阿修羅帖 / 著作者伊東忠太, 杉村廣太郎.
Ashura chō / chosakusha Itō Chūta, Sugimura Kōtarō.
100 color woodcut prints in each volumes totalling 500 prints. Each page contains half page woodcut print illustration and a satirical commentary. End of each volume contains the list of illustration's titles and the names of the commentaitor. The theme of these pictures are the world situation at that time when the WW I was about to start. Each country in the world is depicted as a demon, an animal, or a comic figure to interpret the situation, speculation etc. between countries.
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Monsters and Machines
This selection focuses on the bestiary’s particular vigor in the visual satire of the period from the onset of World War I through the end of the Cold War —what historian Eric Hobsbawm called “the age of extremes” — a time of ideologically-fueled hostilities of unprecedented scale and destructive consequence that eventually brought humanity to the brink of self-annihilation.
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