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Integrating traditional imagery and subject matter with pop art, Teraoka casts contemporary issues—from AIDS to computers, environmental degradation, and drive-by shootings—in historical guise. Humor and satire combine with a vibrant iconography drawn from Japanese and Western sources—catfish, trickster, fox, ghost, snake, ninja, samurai, geisha, Adam and Eve, punk rockers, and television. Teraoka's work moves from the indulgent pleasures of ukiyo, or the "floating world" of ancient theater and pleasure houses, to a chastened consciousness of death and evil with a majestic virtuosity unique in contemporary art.

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Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions extending beyond 2007, Ascending Chaos is the first major retrospective of Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka's prolific and acclaimed work thus far. In Teraoka's paintings which have evolved from his wry mimicry of Japanese woodblock prints to much larger and complex canvasses reminiscent of Bosch and Brueghel the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.

Integrating traditional imagery and subject matter with pop art, Teraoka casts contemporary issues—from AIDS to computers, environmental degradation, and drive-by shootings—in historical guise. Humor and satire combine with a vibrant iconography drawn from Japanese and Western sources—catfish, trickster, fox, ghost, snake, ninja, samurai, geisha, Adam and Eve, punk rockers, and television. Teraoka's work moves from the indulgent pleasures of ukiyo, or the "floating world" of ancient theater and pleasure houses, to a chastened consciousness of death and evil with a majestic virtuosity unique in contemporary art.

New book. Contains 44 full color reproductions.

Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka introduces an artist of singular imagination. Teraoka depicts the dramas of contemporary life, enlivening them with expressive details and nearly clandestine thoughts. Forty-four of the artist's challenging, meticulous, and intelligent paintings are presented in full-color illustrations. The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii and Long Beach Museum of Art in California had exhibitions in 1988 and 1989.

Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka introduces an artist of singular imagination. Teraoka depicts the dramas of contemporary life, enlivening them with expressive details and nearly clandestine thoughts. Forty-four of the artist's challenging, meticulous, and intelligent paintings are presented in full-color illustrations. The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii and Long Beach Museum of Art in California had exhibitions in 1988 and 1989.