Artworks

Suspended Cat

Artwork · Fumio Asakura · 1909 · sculpture · Asakura Museum of Sculpture

One of the many feline subjects of Fumio Asakura (1883–1964), the outstanding sculptor of the early twentieth century and an influential teacher: a cat held by the scruff of its neck dangles in midair, its discomfort and frustration as palpable as its sleek, muscular body. 1 Mason 2005, p. 357, fig. 420. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.