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Morimura Yasumasa 森村泰昌 (1951-)

•  Self-portrait as Art History . 1988-1990.   Computer-manipulated photograph.

Compare with Eduoard Manet's Olympia (1863), Pieter the Elder Bruegel's Parable of the Blind (1568), Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888), Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (1889), Velasquez' The Infanta Margarita (1648-58), Sharaku's Ichikawa Ebizo (1794-95), Sharaku's Bodara and Gon (c. 1794-95), Jakuchu's Nirvana of Vegetables

•  Psychoborg 22. 1994.   Computer-manipulated photograph; 130 x 110 cm. Collection of the artist. (fig. 465)

Masami Teraoka (1936-)

•  Hawaii Snorkel Series/Kunisada Eclipsed.   1993.   Woodcut, acquatint.

•  McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan series.   1976.   Watercolor on paper.

•  AIDS series. 1986.   Watercolor.