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Female Forms; In Miwa Yanagi's striking photographs, Japanese women waver between society's expectations and their own deepest desires.
Byline: Kay Itoi
Miwa Yanagi was feeling lost. It was the early '90s and she had recently earned a master's degree from Kyoto City University of Arts. Short on money and ideas, she took a job teaching art history, but felt guilty about not making art. During her commute each day, she observed uniformed young women operating elevators in big department stores. Then one day, it hit her: she might have been wearing a suit, but she wasn't any different from those elevator girls. She was playing the role of teacher, just as they were playing their parts. "I thought, everybody was trying to meet others' expectations in this society," she recalls.
That revelation prompted her to create a stunning series of mural-size photographs called "Elevator Girls." Featuring expressionless, ...
- Miwa Yanagi at Aoi. (Osaka, Japan)(Reviews of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Fitzgerald, Simon March 1, 1998 700+ words
...One such is Miwa Yanagi. Only a few years...of posed women. Yanagi's work centers on "elevator girls," those paragons...story of three supine elevator girls in a clinical elevator...ongoing themes. Yanagi's art, even in...
- Museum to open Yanagi's home.
- Magazine article from: Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri June 6, 2006 700+ words
...Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri) Museum to open Yanagi's home Yomiuri The Japan Folk Crafts...starting Thursday the house of Muneyoshi Yanagi (1889-1961), who was known for promoting...two-story wooden house, designed by Yanagi to fuse Japanese and Western features...
- Exhibition remembers philosophy of Yanagi's folk art movem.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 12, 2004 700+ words
...Exhibition remembers philosophy of Yanagi's folk art movement Hiroko Ihara Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), leader of Japan...unknown craftsmen in Japan and Korea. Yanagi's lifelong efforts to draw recognition...
- Soetsu Yanagi's enduring legacy.
- Magazine article from: Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri March 3, 2007 700+ words
...Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri) Soetsu Yanagi's enduring legacy Robert Reed / Special...For many who know the legacy of Soetsu Yanagi and how much he did to preserve and revive...museum building was designed and built by Yanagi himself in 1936. Simply sliding open...
- Testing taboos. (installation art, Yukinori Yanagi, Peter Blum Gallery and...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Koplos, Janet October 1, 1995 700+ words
Yukinori Yanagi makes the most explicitly political works...and the sanctity of the emperor system. Yanagi's political proclivities blossomed during...carpet was occasionally turned back. Yanagi speaks of the metaphor of this hiddenness...
- Yukinori Yanagi: darkness illuminated the installation artist's monumental,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Koplos, Janet December 1, 2008 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE '90s, Yukinori Yanagi and his intelligent and often witty sociopolitical...was on view. But in the new century, Yanagi has been mostly out of sight in the West...Chichu now manages a new structure for Yanagi's complex installations and videos on...
- BROTHER INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES YOSHI YANAGI TO RETIRE
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 18, 1992 700+ words
...INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES YOSHI YANAGI TO RETIRE SOMERSET, N.J., Sept...International Corporation has announced that Yoshi Yanagi, senior vice president and board member...that we accept the retirement of Mr. Yanagi. He has been an excellent employee...
- Inspiran las hormigas el arte de Yanagi.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) February 15, 2002 700+ words
...Museo Hara de Japn. La obra de Yukinori Yanagi (Fukoka, Japn, 1959) se distingue...Cotthem de Barcelona. En Euro Project, Yanagi hace que miles de hormigas negras devoren...galeras subterrneas. Las hormigas de Yanagi enlazan, a la vista del pblico, a Espaa...
- India-Japan enjoying improved relations: Yanagi.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 13, 2006 700+ words
...Japan enjoying improved relations: Yanagi Ajmer, July 12 (PTI) Recovering from...economic affairs in Japanese Embassy Hidenao Yanagi said here today. "The visit of Japanese...mutual regard between the two countries," Yanagi told reporters here. During the visit...
- Miwa Yanagi at the Hara Museum.(TOKYO)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Koplos, Janet February 1, 2006 700+ words
Miwa Yanagi created a stir with her "Elevator Girl" series of photographs beginning...in which a woman sweeps sand into rippled wavelets on a stone floor. Yanagi is so effective at establishing this world of little and bigger girls...
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