Manga Dan Graham Story [PDF Edition]

Dan Graham (Concept)

Fumihiro Nonomura (Author)

Ken Tanimoto (Illustrator)

Book Description

American conceptual artist Dan Graham has always stimulated the world of contemporary art. 

Since the 1960s, he began working in a cross-art form that transcended the walls of genre. 

He contributed various articles of cultural criticism to magazines, presented art works that took the form of fake articles, most representatively in "Homes for America." 

From the 1970s, he further expanded his media to include video works, physical performances, and installations. 

In particular,his representative work using two-way mirror "pavilion" series was exhibited all over the world as a cross artwork of architecture and contemporary art.

Graham generally loves rock and youth culture as well as popular culture. His art works and his magazine articles influenced musicians of the post-punk scene. 

For example, Graham is known for creating the opportunity for the formation of Sonic Youth when he recommended Kim Gordon to do music when she was still a visual artist.

Graham’s work and his personal history are a mirror of the times as well as a mirror of himself.

This comic book has been produced as a part of the catalog of Dan Graham’s retrospective exhibition at Portugal’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves) in 2001.

From the early period of Japanese manga Graham paid attention to it as the upcoming style of global youth culture. 

Under Graham's supervision, the Japanese art critic Fumihiro Nonomura -- a friend of Graham’s -- was asked to do the scenario and the manga artist Ken Tanimoto, who majored in painting and contemporary art at art school,the pictures.

Moreover, the content of this manga has been augmented for the Japanese version in "Dan Graham by Dan Graham," a traveling exhibition that began at the Chiba City Museum of Art in 2004. 

It was also published in "DAN GRAHAM: BEYOND," a major retrospective exhibition in the United States which began at the Los Angeles MOCA in 2009.

In short, this manga also represents one of Dan Graham’s practices that traverse across various cultural genres.

And our age has advanced even more. In order to introduce to the next generation Dan Graham's activity that is full of love for humanity,the Japanese electronic publisher Tempo Press decided to transfer electronic data from paper to publish this manga as an e-book.

Product Details

File Size: 21350 KB

Print Length: 34 pages

Publisher: tenpo-press (September 27, 2012)

Language: English

This work has been published as the exhibition catalog of “Dan Graham Works 1965-2000”

Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto

January 14-March 25, 2001

And also the work published following exhibitions in a catalog (Included some addition of the images and texts)

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

June 21-September 30, 2001

Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo

November 25, 2001-February 10, 2002

Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

May-August, 2002

Japanese version is the first augmented the exhibition catalog of Chiba City Museum of

Art. And the English version has been augmented exhibition catalog of Los Angeles MOCA.

“Dan Graham by Dan Graham”

Chiba City Museum of Art

December 2 2003- February 1st ,2004

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

February 14-March 28, 2004

“DAN GRAHAM: BEYOND”

MOCA, Los Angeles

February 15-May 25, 2009

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

June25-October 11, 2009

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

October 31, 2009-January 24, 2010

Concept:Dan Graham

Author:Fumihiro Nonomura

Illustrator:Ken Tanimoto

Coordinator:Tomoko Take

Planner:Manabu Miki

Publisher: tenpo-press

twitter:@TenpoPress

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