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Akira Tatehata

たてはた あきら

Tatehata Akira

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1947-08-01 (Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
poet, art critic, museum director, university professor
活動期間
1970年〜
所属
Geijutsu Shincho (editor), National Museum of Art, Osaka (senior researcher / director), Tama Art University (assistant professor / professor / president / professor emeritus), Kyoto City University of Arts (president / professor emeritus), Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (director), Yayoi Kusama Museum (director), Columbia University (visiting researcher), Tokyo University of the Arts (visiting professor)
所属団体
Japan PEN Club

学歴

Waseda University
Faculty of Letters / Department of French Literature
卒業年: 1970
国: Japan

受賞歴

Rikutei Shin'ei Prize (2nd)
1991
対象作品: Yohaku no Runner (Margin Runner)
結果: winner
Takami Jun Prize (35th)
2005
対象作品: Reido no Inu (Dog of Zero Degrees)
結果: winner
Hagiwara Sakutaro Prize (21st)
2013
対象作品: Shigo no Lesson (Lessons in Dead Words)
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Yohaku no Runner (Margin Runner)

1991年 poetry

A poetry collection focusing on margins and fragments; one of the author's early representative works.

marginsfragmentsthe city

Sono Humming o Shimo

1993年 poetry

A lyrical, rhythmical collection of poems.

soundmemory

Patrick Century

1996年 poetry

A collection containing poetic allegories concerning people and eras.

individualstime

Answers Without Questions: Objects and Sculpture

1998年 art criticism

A series of essays on objects and sculpture, summarizing his work as an art critic.

sculptureobjectsmodernism

Unfinished Past: Painting and Modernism

2000年 art criticism

A work containing considerations on painting history and modernism.

painting historymodernism

Reido no Inu (Dog of Zero Degrees)

2004年 poetry

A poetry collection characterized by a calm gaze and motifs of silence. Winner of the Takami Jun Prize.

silencesolitude

The Greens of Dublin

2005年 essays

An essay collection concerning Dublin and Ireland.

travelmemory

Shigo no Lesson (Lessons in Dead Words)

2013年 poetry

A poetry collection themed on the demise and forgetting of language. Winner of the Hagiwara Sakutaro Prize.

languageforgettingdead words

Taxidermy Series

2021年 poetry

A poetry collection that questions existence and memory through the motif of taxidermy.

preservationmemory

全著作

  • Yohaku no Runner (Margin Runner)
  • Sono Humming o Shimo
  • Patrick Century
  • Answers Without Questions: Objects and Sculpture
  • Unfinished Past: Painting and Modernism
  • Reido no Inu (Dog of Zero Degrees)
  • The Greens of Dublin
  • Shigo no Lesson (Lessons in Dead Words)
  • Taxidermy Series

作風・主題

文体
fragmentary, poetic expressionart-critical observational voice
頻出モチーフ
marginsmemorydead languageurban landscapes

評価・遺産

Alongside his work as a poet, he contributed significantly to dissemination and education of contemporary art in Japan as a museum director and university president. Known for a distinctive perspective that traverses poetry and art criticism.

記念館・博物館

  • Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Saitama Prefecture, Japan
  • Yayoi Kusama Museum Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 2017年開館

関連学会

  • Japan PEN Club

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (works and materials)
  • CiNii / KAKEN (research performance databases)

豆知識

  • His elder brother is sculptor Sakuya Tatehata.
  • His father was sculptor Kakuzo Tatehata and his grandfather was sculptor Daimu Tatehata.
  • He is active both as a poet and as an art critic / museum administrator.