Note (Text Language)Artist's essay and list of plates in English (inside front cover) and Japanese (inside back cover). Without other textual content.
Note (General)Title from covers (English on front cover, Japanese on back cover).
Issued in illustrated stiff paper covers.
Library copy's covers (front cover and back cover) detached.
Contains 56 full-page and 10 double-page tritone reproductions of black and white photographs. Two images on 1 folded leaf; 10 blank pages.
Artist's essay has title: The last cosmology 1980-2000.
Another selection from Kawada's "Last cosmology" series of photographs was published under title: The last cosmology : photographs / Kawada Kikuji = ラスト・コスモロジー / 川田喜久治写真集. 東京 : 491, 1995.
Note (Content)"Astrology, once a scholarly tradition, binds astronomical phenomena to events of the human world. 'The last cosmology' reveals Kikuji Kawada's preoccupation with the cosmos, and his fleeting empathy for the abating custom of divination. Inspired by the apocalyptic sky-scapes of the painter Emil Nolde, Kawada photographed abnormal and calamitous weather conditions: gales that configure coiling cloud-patterns, electrical storms, or rain striking glass. Captured between 1980 and 2000, the work is part of 'The catastrophe trilogy,' a chronicle which ties together the dramas of the skies with the end of two historical eras on earth: the Showa Era in Japan, ending with the death of the Emperor in 1989, and 20th century's close. Kawada says, 'I imagine the era and myself as an implicitly intermingling catastrophe ... I want to spy on the depths of a multihued heart that is like a Karman vortex'"--Publisher's Web site, viewed July 29, 2015.