Lars Müller (ed.)

Shizuko Yoshikawa

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934–2019). Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a member of the second generation of constructive-concrete art, she takes a special position due to her Japanese origins and education.

Shizuko Yoshikawa was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung known as the postwar “Bauhaus.” She later married the renowned designer Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–1996), a pioneer of Swiss graphic design, and spent most of her life living and working in Switzerland.

This book, initiated by the Shizuko Yoshikawa and Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundation, contains a major essay by art historian Gabrielle Schaad and a contribution by Prof. Midori Yoshimoto, highlighting the life of the artist and interpreting her oeuvre in the Japanese context.

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934–2019). Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a member of the second generation of constructive-concrete art, she takes a special position due to her Japanese origins and education.

Shizuko Yoshikawa was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung known as the postwar “Bauhaus.” She later married the renowned designer Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–1996), a pioneer of Swiss graphic design, and spent most of her life living and working in Switzerland.

This book, initiated by the Shizuko Yoshikawa and Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundation, contains a major essay by art historian Gabrielle Schaad and a contribution by Prof. Midori Yoshimoto, highlighting the life of the artist and interpreting her oeuvre in the Japanese context.

Author(s): Gabrielle Schaad

Edited by Lars Müller

With an essay by Midori Yoshimoto

Design: Integral Lars Müller

25 × 28 cm, 10 × 11 in

248 pages, 236 illustrations

hardback

2018, 978-3-03778-567-6, German
English
Japanese
CHF 60.00

Gabrielle Schaad

Gabrielle Schaad (*1982) is an art and architectural historian. Her doctoral thesis at ETH Zürich focused on the pitfalls of technology optimism at the interface between art and architecture in 1960s Japan. Schaad is the author of catalog essays and art criticism and has been a curatorial assistant inter alia at Kunstmuseum Luzern and Kunsthaus Zürich. She works and teaches as a research assistant in the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich and on the art & media bachelor’s course at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).