First edition, first impression of Taking Up The Melody by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Medium formmt hardback in new condition.
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The bookTaking up the Melody, which accompanies the eponymous exhibition, explores Sugimotos work through the concept ofhonka-dori, borrowed from classical Japanese poetry, which refers to the act of revisiting a previous work in order to shift its meaning and revitalize its significance. This principle of reworking allows Sugimotos entire body of work to be viewed as a system of variations, where each image is constructed in a conscious relationship to preexisting forms and knowledge: the accumulation of time until the image fades (in the Theaters series), the reduction of the landscape to an abstract and ahistorical structure (in the seascapes of Seascapes), and the exploration of optical phenomena and the limits of vision (Opticks).
