Yūtokutaishi Akiyama
Yūtokutaishi Akiyama (1935 – 3 April 2020), born Sukenori Akiyama, was a Japanese engraver artist, photographer, and occasional politician.
Also recorded as Yutokutaishi Akiyama · Yuutokutaishi Akiyama
Yūtokutaishi Akiyama
- Born
- 1935 · Arakawa.
- Died
- 2020 · Zama.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer · printmaker · politician
- Education
- Musashino Art University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Biography
Born in Tokyo, Akiyama studied engraving at Musashino Art School (the predecessor to Musashino Art University) and then worked as an industrial designer for an electrical company. He started exhibiting his own tin engravings and other work from 1965, and in both 1975 and 1979 ran for Governor of Tokyo, bringing his pop art into the process. From 1999 until 2003, Akiyama was an adjunct professor at Sapporo University. From 1992 until around 2009, Akiyama joined Genpei Akasegawa and Yutaka Takanashi in the informal group Raika Dōmei. Exhibitions of his work include "Akiyama Yūtokutaishi no sekai-ten" in Ikeda 20-Seiki Bijutsukan (Itō, Shizuoka) in 1994. Work by Akiyama is in the permanent collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum. He appears in the film Yūheisha/Terorisuto (2007), directed by Masao Adachi.
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Arakawa.
Birth place
Zama.
Death place
Publications
• Tsūzokuteki geijutsuron: Poppu-āto no tatakai. Tokyo: Doyō Bijutsusha, 1985. • Hōmatsu ketsujin retsuden: Shirazaru chō-zen'ei. Tokyo: Nigensha, 2002.. • Buriki otoko. Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 2007.. • Tennen rōjin: Konna ni tanoshii dokkyo-seikatsu. ASCII Shinsho. Tokyo: ASCII Media Works, 2008..
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- Zacharias HeynsEngraver
- Zacharie HeinceEngraver
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