Yukinori Yanagi

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi, best known for his large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate national and transnational sovereignty, globalization and borders, as well as Japan’s imperial history and nationalism. Yanagi is particularly interested in the transmission of ideology vis-à-vis signs and symbolic imagery; flags are the most frequent motif in his oeuvre.

Presenting seven series of works from throughout Yanagi’s 35-year career, this project features never-before-published archival materials and artist interviews alongside large-scale reproductions and original texts by scholars Mika Yoshitake and Bert Winter-Tamaki. This comprehensive retrospective of Yanagi’s work will provide a platform for English readers to engage with his politically and socially engaged practice for the first time.

Edited by Mika Yoshitake. Text by Yukinori Yanagi, Bert Winther-Tamaki, Jane Farver.

Hardcover, 224 pages
Los Angeles: BLUM Books, 2025
9.25 x 10.75 inches