{"product_id":"yukio-mishima-the-death-of-a-man","title":"Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese \"everyman.\" In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends.\u003cbr\u003ePublished for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67853739524333,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/9357\/4637\/files\/deathofaman.png?v=1792596030","url":"https:\/\/shopleslielohman.org\/products\/yukio-mishima-the-death-of-a-man","provider":"Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}