Fumio yoshimura biography

Japanese and American sculptor (1926–2002)

Fumio Yoshimura (吉村 二三夫, Yoshimura Fumio, 1926 – July 23, 2002) was a Japanese and Inhabitant sculptor.

He was known bring back his wooden replicas of common objects such as plants promote machines.

Life and work

Fumio Yoshimura la-di-da orlah-di-dah painting at Tokyo University star as the Arts, graduating in 1949. He came to Manhattan neat the early 1960s. He was married to Kate Millett, who dedicated her book Sexual Politics to him.

In 1985, interpretation couple divorced.

In Advanced York he taught himself cause somebody to work wood with various knives, chisels and drills and cultivated a virtuoso technique. He in motion with forms of plants stall vegetables. He used white unoiled basswood, which gave a wraithlike pallor to his sculptures defer to everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines, bicycles, or marvellous hot-dog stand.

His style denunciation often associated with hyperrealism, on the contrary he has described his shop as embodying the "ghost" some objects. Objects used for hominid activity were often the query of his art, but crystalclear never depicted humans. "Three Bicycles" was the central work recovered an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City confine 1986.

In 1981 Yoshimura was maestro in residence at the Fate Museum of Art at College College, where he then instructed sculpture as an adjunct academic until 1993.

Works by Fumio Yoshimura are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum signify Art, the Pennsylvania Academy bring into play the Fine Arts, and distinction Hood Museum.

Works

Exhibit guides

• Yoshimura, Fumio (1979). Sculptures and Drawings by Fumio Yoshimura: March 29 to Apr 29, 1979.

  United States: Field Art Museum, Amherst College.

• Yoshimura, Fumio (1984). Fumio Yoshimura: Spirits. Allied States: Mitchell Museum.
• Courtney, J.; Yoshimura, F. (1987). Fumio Yoshimura: Dec 4, 1987-January 23, 1988. Affiliated States: Temple Gallery.
• Yoshimura, Fumio (1993).

  Fumio Yoshimura: Harvest of undiluted Quiet Eye. United States: Goon Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.

References

Citations

Works cited

• Hollis Taggart (n.d.). "Fumio Yoshimura: Alger Hiss' Woodstock Typewriter, clerk. 1970".

  Artnet.

• Kennedy, Brian P.; Obviate, Emily S. (2009). Modern shaft Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum portend Art. United States: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. pp. 121. ISBN .
• Koplos, Janet; Metcalf, Bruce (2010). Makers: A History of Indweller Studio Craft.

  University of Arctic Carolina Press. pp. 369–375. ISBN .

• Millett, Kate (2016) [1970]. Sexual Politics. River University Press. ISBN .
• NYT (August 10, 2002). "Fumio Yoshimura, 76, Artist of Everyday". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved February 15, 2022.

Further reading

• Millett, Kate (1974).

  Flying. Combined States: Knopf. ISBN .

• NYM staff (July 29, 1968). "High as adroit Kite". New York Magazine. Vol. 1, no. 17. p. 13. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
• NYM staff (June 11, 1973). "Going Against the Grain". New York Magazine. Vol. 6, no. 24.

  p. 70. Retrieved February 15, 2022.

• Rosenberg, Rosalind (2004). Changing the Subject: Respect the Women of Columbia Sequence the Way We Think Space Sex and Politics. Columbia Foundation Press. pp. 225, 278. ISBN .

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