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Nobuo Kubota

Hokusai Revisited

with Diane Pugen

text by Terrence Heath

foreword by David David

Publisher
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 2008
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921500957
    Publish Date
    Jan 2008
    List Price
    $15

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Nobuo Kubota was born in Vancouver, BC of Japanese parents and educated as an architect at the University of Toronto. He is known not only as a visual artist but also as a musician and sound performer. Kubota's work is best described as unidisciplinary, not in the sense of any form of art, but in the sense of bringing together many forms of art into a single, coherent experience that often encompasses architecture, sound, and visuals. This installation, Hukusai Revisited , is remarkable in the simple and elegant reconstitution of the ever-changing dynamic of the natural and manufactured worlds. Long curves of pine slats are like waves and there is no predetermined end to their motion. Underlying change is the basic force of all life in the universe.Additional co-publisher: Kelowna Art Gallery. Additional Foreward contributors: Celeste Scopelites, Carl Lavoy, Dona Moore.

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Terrence Heath is one of Canada's most distinguished curators and art historians. He is also the award-winning author of numerous fiction and non-fiction books, including, most recently, Casualties. He divides his time between Paris and Toronto, Ontario.

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