Heart of Hearts rite-painting

Heart of Hearts rite-paintingPre Echo, 2023. Softcover, 460pp., 11. 5 x 9. 5 inches New The result of several years of research, Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts is the first book project dedicated to the life and work of Japanese American artist Miyoko Ito (19181983). While Itos paintings have recently been the subject of critically acclaimed exhibitions, her elegant and mysterious artwork was scarcely known beyond Chicago, where she lived and was celebrated during her lifetime.

Besides his iconic Schröder House

to more anonymous citizens referred to only by their first name or the location in which the image was captured

the highs and the bass

Fifteen color images of various cacti

one might say her tail is looking more and more like a ribbon

Six years in the making

art and personal life

"At the beginning

" New York

Texts by Nadia

… There should be no such thing as art divorced from life

the “Halbstarke”― a loosely organized group of Swiss “rebels” in the late 1950s and early 1960s