Takashi Murakami: Little Boy, The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture (Yale University Press, 2005) Smart Museum the book documents works from

the book documents works from the last 20 years

and Peter Ribic

ascribing human roles to animals and wrenching human figures from their conventional existence

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 190546472X

And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today

Takashi Murakami: Little Boy, The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture (Yale University Press, 2005) Smart Museum the book documents works from298 pages 11. 25 x 9. 25 in Hardcover ISBN 10: 0300102852 "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture is the companion catalogue to the exhibition 'Little Boy' curated by artist Takashi Murakami. The book is about the aesthetics of postwar culture in Japan and marks the final project of Murakami's Superflat Trilogy started in 2000. Curated by Murakami, this exhibition explored the culture of postwar Japan through the art and visual media