Theatrum Mundi

First Edition, 2015. 244 pages

Book measures 6.75 x 10 inches. Soft cover in stiff French-fold wrappers. Photographs by Kikuji Kawada. Essays (in Japanese and English) by Mark Holborn and Kyoko Jimbo. Includes a list of plates, exhibition checklist, audio transcripts, biography, list of major works and bibliography. Designed by Ai Yoshino. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white and four-color plates. Published on the occasion of a major 2003 retrospective exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A comprehensive catalogue featuring Kawada's major projects and lesser-known works: The Map, Sacré Atavism, parco dei mostri, The Castle: Ludwig II, Microcosmos, The Hell, The Dream of the Stones, Grotesque Garden, WAX-MAN-TOWN, The Globe Theater, Los Caprichos, The Last Cosmology, Car Maniac and Eureka. Also includes thumbnail facsimiles of the first edition of Chizu / The Map, 1965.