Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Description
"Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre" is one of Onchi's documentary studies of Tokyo cultural venues — a commitment to recording the specific visual character of the city's performance spaces that paralleled his more formal artistic investigations. The interior of a theatrical space offered him particular compositional advantages: the layered architecture of audience seating, stage, and fly space; the specific quality of theatrical lighting; the relationship between the performance space and the audience's visual experience of it. These venue studies served both documentary and formal purposes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre depicts kabuki.