Teruhiko Yumura, et al.-. Shinjuku Playmap. Nos. 1 (July 1969) through 30 (December 1971) (all published in the first series). 8vo. Wrpps., covers illustrated by Teruhiko Yumura (also known as King Terry and Terry Johnson). Tokyo 1969-1971. [46471]
What power is this, indeed?
The global tidal wave of youth culture rebellion and experimentation of the late 1960s and early 1970s did not bypass Tokyo. Shinjuku ward—home to the city’s municipal government and its busiest commuter rail center—was the local substation through which powerful new currents in music, fashion and visual art flowed in and out of Japan.
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Graphic design,
Heikichi Harata,
Illustration,
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King Terry,
Say! Young,
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Shinobu Ishimaru,
Tokyo,
Underground
(Fabric weaving manuscript).- Felix, M. & J. Mercier. Cahier de Théorie 4e Année 3e. N.p. (Lyon?) n.d. (circa 1895). [44915]
Though we know little about the person who composed it (“J. Mercier,” seemingly a student in the 4th-year class of one “Professeur M. Felix”), Cahier de Théorie 4e Année 3e offers a rich window into the world of industrial fabric design in turn-of-the-century Lyon—once a world capital of silk production.
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Damask,
Lyon,
Silk,
Textiles
Sem (pseudonym for Georges Goursat). Sem au Bois (title stamped in gilt on front cover). N.p. (Paris?) ca. 1908. Signed and dated 29/4/08 in pencil on the last plate; 6 other plates with the artist’s printed insignia. [45958]
"La 'MERCEDES'' des Commissaires," panel 1 of Sem au Bois.
A jewel in the crown of Baron Haussmann’s modernized Paris, the Bois de Boulogne opened as a park in 1852. Funded by Napolean III — who’s said to have been taken with London’s Hyde Park during his exile there in the 1830s — the “Boulogne Woods” offered the social elite of Belle Époque Paris an ideal grounds for the public display of their accumulating wealth. In 1908, Georges Goursat, who was known at the time by his moniker “Sem,” caricatured the ensuing parade of bourgeois vanity in a spectacular yet little-known accordion-format panoramic album entitled Sem au Bois.
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Bois de Boulogne,
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