Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps Three Star Books in a semi bird’s-eye vantage

in a semi bird’s-eye vantage point

and journal entries

These texts are interwoven with a visual chronology documenting over seven decades of key works

Murakami coined the titular term to discuss a lineage of Japanese visual culture from sixteenth-century painting and nineteenth-century woodblock prints to contemporary comics

the connotation of durability in the first term contrasts with the implication of change in the second

Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps Three Star Books in a semi bird’s-eye vantageThis book was published on the occasion of four exhibitions entitled Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps at Gagosian, Beverly Hills; Paris; Davies Street, London; and Hong Kong. One of the most celebrated architects living today, Gehry has forever altered the urban landscape with spectacular buildings that are conceived as dynamic structures rather than static vessels. Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984, the fish has become a recurring motif in Gehrys