Kazumasa Nagai
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Kazumasa Nagai(Japanese:Vĩnh giếng nghiêm,Nagai Kazumasa;Ōsaka,April 20, 1929) is a Japanese printmaker and graphic designer. He attended the University of the Arts inTokyoto study sculpture, but had to stop due to health problems.[1]
In 1964, he took part indocumentaIII, inKassel.
He was a founding member of theNippon Design Center(NDC)(1959), where he was its President from 1975 to 1986, Vice-President until 2001, and Senior Executive Advisor until today.
Although his first works were abstract at the beginning, he changed for handmade designs of animals and plants in the 1980s. Some of his works appeared on the cover ofLIFE.[2]
His work is held in many museums, including theFine Arts Museum of San Francisco,[3]theNational Gallery of Australia,[4]theMuseum of New Zealand,[5]theBritish Museum,[6]theUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art,[7]theWalker Art Center,[8]theStedelijk Museum Amsterdam,[9]the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo,[10]theMuseum of Applied Arts and Sciences,[11]and theMuseum of Modern Art.[12]
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- ^Popova, Maria (2019-12-12)."Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Illustrations of Animals and Scientific Phenomena".Brain Pickings.Retrieved2021-03-26.
- ^"Kazumasa Nagai".FAMSF Search the Collections.2018-09-21.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- ^Nagai, Kazumasa."(Poster for the joint exhibition by four artist)".Item held by National Gallery of Australia.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- ^"Loading... | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa".collections.tepapa.govt.nz.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- ^"print | British Museum".The British Museum.Retrieved2021-01-08.
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- ^"Poster for The World of Kazumas Nagai (at Ikeda 20th Century Museum)".walkerart.org.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- ^Grrr.nl."Kazumasa Nagai - Kazumasa Nagai".stedelijk.nl.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- ^"Juxtapoz Magazine - Poster Art From the Incredible Kazumasa Nagai".juxtapoz.Retrieved2021-03-26.
- ^"Japanese furoshiki designed by Kazumasa Nagai".collection.maas.museum.Retrieved2021-03-26.
- ^"Kazumasa Nagai. Kazumasa Nagai Exhibition at Imabashi Gallery. 1969 | MoMA".The Museum of Modern Art.Retrieved2021-01-08.
- documenta III. Internationale Ausstellung;Katalog: Band 1: Malerei und Skulptur; Band 2: Handzeichnungen; Band 3: Industrial Design, Graphik; Kassel/Colonia 1964
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