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Perhaps no other artist in Sosaku Hanga had more artistic aptitude for experimentation or reinvention than Kitaoka Fumio. Social realism, surrealism, futurism, abstraction, and realism were all styles Kitaoka explored in his long and diversified print career. This reference successfully provides the reader with an understanding of Kitaoka’s artistic agility. In fewer than 100 pages, this catalogue explores all of the artist’s experiments and showcases the work that is instantly recognizable as Kitaoka’s.

At present there is no complete reference on Kitaoka, and as such, those interested in the artist must piece together a catalogue raisonné via several books in order to get the complete picture of the artist’s oeuvre. This reference is an integral part of that formula.