Book: A JOURNEY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH WINDOWS

This is the book for the Exhibition: A JOURNEY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE THROUGH WINDOWS  October 13, 2020-January 11, 2021.

Windows—a common, indispensable part of our lives. Square or rectangular in shape, they frame the world outside for us to see. People have long perceived a close link between windows and paintings, which also frame for us a world existing elsewhere. As the times have progressed, this link has also been extended to photographs, films, and art installations.

In the field of architecture, windows of varied form and character have continually been devised in every age and region, in response to aesthetic considerations and the development of new technologies suiting the regional climate.

This exhibition—which is enhanced by insights from the Window Research Institute—presents window-related artworks ranging from paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Paul Klee to works by contemporary artists. Also featured are valuable drawings by architects such as Le Corbusier and Kahn. Please enjoy the word of windows that transcends genres. (From the exhibition overview)

CONTENTS

・The World of Windows

・Architecture and Art as Seen from a Window

・Windows of 20th Century ArtⅠ

・Windows of 20th Century Art Ⅱ

・People Looking Out of WindowsⅠ 

・Inside and Outside Windows,: Narahara Ikko’s Domains 

・Windows of the World: Xijing Men’s 

Chapter 3: Welcome to Xijing―Xijing Immigration Service

・People Looking Out of Windows Ⅱ

　Jozef Robakowski’s From My Windows

・People Looking Out of Windows Ⅲ

　Tadeusz Kantor’s School Class―Closed Work

・Windows as Screens

・The Kinematics of Windows

・Light through the Window

・Windows on Hope :Gerhard Richter’s 8 Glass Panels

・House of Windows:

  Sou Fujimoto’s Living with in/without Windows

View from a Window(Remix) Kuraya Mika

The Picture -as-Window Theory Igarashi Taro

Planning: Kuraya Mika(The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), Igarashi Taro(Professor Tohoku University / Historian and Critic / Supervisor of Windowology)

Translation: Christopher Stephens, Ruth S. Mcreery (Word Works)