Catalogs of exhibitions hosted by the Fukuoka Art Museum are available for sale at the Museum Shop if they are in stock. (The catalogs with the prices indicated [tax included] are available.) The catalogs are written only in Japanese unless otherwise noted. If you need information about online shopping, please efer to below:
A list of annual Exhibition Catalogs is available.
Posthumous 50 Years - Ueda Usaburo Toward another Dimension
2013, 63pages, 1,527yen
The catalog commemorates posthumous 50 years of Ueda Usaburo (1912 ～ 1964), a Japanese-style painter who continued progressive attempts in art in Fukuoka. He began to distinguish himself by depicting pictures of beautiful women with such a superb ability, and postwar, he reached his own intrinsic method of abstract painting that are also reflected in this catalog. His forty nine representative works, and forty one reference images, in addition to the excerpt of his writings, his diary which he recorded for seventeen years (January 1, 1947 ～ January 29, 1964) as well as his chronology and an essay are printed. His diary in its entirety in CD is attached
Ichizo Kobayashi & Yasuzaemon Matsunaga Companionship Record of Tea Ceremony Noted article collection
2013, 149pages, 1,980yen
Yasuzaemon Matsunaga (pseudonym Jian) who reorganized the management of an electric industry and practiced a unique privatization of railway management. Ichizo Kobayashi (pseudonym Itsuo) who is known to be the originator of Takarazuka Revue. Contrasting these two in the world of "Chanoyu," the catalog displays the compliment of each of their collections of masterpieces in full-colors.
The Beauty of Patina The Bronze Artworks of Southeast Asia
2013, 160pages, 2,037yen
This catalog introduces the 183 bronze works starting with Buddhist and Hindu sculptures and metal ornaments in the Angkor Dynasty, pre-historic relics that are representative of Dongson and Banchong cultures, as well as Buddhist statues of various regions of Thailand , Laos and Myanmar in addition to the 11 special exhibits of reference. The exhibits are by private collectors from Japan and overseas and most of them are being released for the first time. A report on the site-research is included. Full-color, the data for all works is in English.
