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Wooden box · 1995
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Box for Ambiguous Beauty/Aimai-No-Bi
1995 · Wooden box
Overall: 29.2 x 49.5 cm (11 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Yasumasa Morimura
Japanese, 1951
WA-00230366
PhotographyContemporary
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Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan – and Asia, more broadly – as feminine.
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