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Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Staging Fire and Constellations
Books ›Staging Fire and Constellations

Staging Fire and Constellations

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Christian Hidaka - Staging Fire and Constellations

This first monograph devoted to the work of Christian Hidaka looks back over his entire career (2002-2024) and presents a wide selection of his work. It is accompanied by a text by art historian Peter Read, who presents the different stages in the artist’s career and provides keys to understanding his symbolic work. Christian Hidaka’s enigmatic work, full of reminiscences, goes through the history of painting to offer a reading that is both reflexive and sensitive. Combining different pictorial references, the English artist succeeds in linking several aesthetics that seem to oppose each other. His artworks evoke Renaissance painting, characterised by Euclidean geometry, as well as traditional Sino-Japanese pictorial aesthetics, favouring a flat representation of landscapes and perspective. Hidaka’s work extends the field of figurative representation by incorporating a wide network of symbols as well as temporal and spatial references that embrace the history of Western and Eastern painting.

Éditions B42 publishes books exploring the visual environment in which we live, contributing to the creation of a library of tools for reflection on the practices of design, graphic design, typography and contemporary creation. These studies intersect with other fields such as technology, media, digital technology, anthropology and cultural studies.

B42 is committed to translating major texts in the history of design and typography, as well as publishing essays that contribute to the dissemination and renewal of knowledge. This work, which began in 2008, has resulted in a catalogue of reference books, particularly popular with teachers, which constitute a living, ever-changing collection.

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Language: English, French
Number of pages: 264
Dimensions: 20 x 28 cm
Release: 12/2025
ISBN: 9782494983311

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