Kitasono Katue (1902--1978) was the best known Japanese poet-artist in Europe and the US during the middle half of the 20th century. Kitasono Katue: Surrealist Poet, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through December 1, 2013, is the first solo exhibition of the artist's work outside of Japan.
Active from the mid-1920s as a pioneering avant-garde spirit, Kitasono made a priority of finding common ground with poets, artists and writers in Europe and the Americas. First entranced by Dadaism and Surrealism, he also thoroughly absorbed the ideas of Futurism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. His poems were often published in poetry and visual art journals, and he served as an editor and graphic designer for some of these, including the journal VOU, published from 1935 to 1940, and then again from 1945 until his death in 1978.
Kitasono began to produce Plastic Poetry after being inspired by the photographs done by members of the VOU group, principally Yamamoto Kansuke (1914-1987), whose finely conceived surrealistic work was often published in the magazine.
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