Christian Boltanski: Lifetime [English / Japanese Bilingual] Edited by The National Museum of Art, Osaka The Natonal Art Center, Tokyo, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum ISBN: 978-4-8010-0392-7 Size: modified B5 Page: 208 Retail Price: 3000JPY Hardcover Contents: Christian Boltanski is an artist who started his career producing short films in the latter half of the 1960s. He began to use photographs from the beginning of the 1970s and gained attention for numerous works related to the nature of memory ― his own and that of others. In the latter half of the 1980s, he began using light installations to produce works with a religious atomosphere incorporating the idea of memorials to the dead. He continued on the themes of history, memory, death, and the traces of human presence and absence, with various materials and forms of expression. This book is the exhibition catalogue of “Christian Boltanski: Lifetime”, the Boltanski’s solo exhibition at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, The Natonal Art Center, Tokyo, and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum. Articles by Yasuyuki Nakai, Yukako Yamada, Yoko Fukumitsu, Hidehiko Yuzawa, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and conversation between Christian Boltanski and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and pictures of art works (4C), list of works, artist’s biography, selected bibliography are contained.