Catalogue for the most comprehensive exhibition of work to date, to be staged outside Japan (and his first show in New York), by the late Japanese artist, Tetsuya Ishida. Ishida’s unique existentialist social surrealist works document the sense of hopelessness and alienation felt my many in Japan during the 1990s in spite of rapid technological development. Both the exhibition and the book help establish Ishida as a major voice of this period and as an important international artist.