"Imaginations from SALOME"

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* 17 illustrations by Beardsley

★ Abundant color illustrations and materials

★Salome's mysterious charm is in this one book!

Salome is known as a beautiful woman who dances a bewitching dance and holds a silver tray on which the head of John the Baptist is placed.

However, the Salome originally written in the Bible is a little different--

“Salome is a story of passion,” says comparative literature scholar Kimie Imura.

The Passion of Salome and the Passion of John.

The story has long captured the imagination of people, but at the end of the 19th century, Salome, who was a character in the Bible, was reconstructed as a single story by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.

Since then, it has fascinated even more people, and even today it continues to be interpreted in various ways, including new productions of opera and theater.

The charm of Salome, 17 illustrations of Salome by Beardsley, a commentary introducing in detail the fate of Wilde and Beardsley who were tossed by Salome, the transition of paintings depicting Salome from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century, and contemporary artists A book that overlooks through tribute works to Salome by!

(full color)

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【table of contents】

◎Why “Salome” now?—From its formation and acceptance ◉Kimie Imura

◎ [Pictures] Various Salome books

◎ [Picture] Salome drawn by Aubrey Beardsley

◎Wild and Beardsley's fate at the mercy of Salome ◉Rika Takahashi

◎[Illustration] Salome in paintings: from ancient times to the early 20th century

◎Changes in the Statue of Salome ◉Kimie Imura

◎ Shigeru Kayama and <Salome> Fantasy ◉ Makoto Kuroda

◎Two Salome exhibitions

◎ [Illustration] A tribute to Salome by a contemporary artist

(Contemporary artists listed (in alphabetical order): Ayumi, Mitsue Oki, Masaru Ogasawara, Yaya Kisaki, Ryu Kimura, Keiko Komine, Tsutsuji Sagara, Sachiko, JUMPEI TAINAKA, Shin Taga, T.T.Angie, Kazuko Toda, Ken Nikai, Hatori , Midori Hayashi, Mantam, Etsuko Miura, Eiko Murata, Miruku Morizono, Shohei Yamashita, Toshio Yamamura)

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A5 size, 112 pages, 1,800yen (consumption tax not included)