SHUZO TAKIGUCHI

Shūzō Takiguchi studied English literature at Keiō University under the direction of Junzaburō Nishiwaki, and began publishing poems from 1926. He practiced surrealist automatism from 1927 to 1931 and, in 1930, he translated André Breton's Surrealism and Painting after numerous exchanges with the author. In 1935, he published an article on surrealism in Japan in Cahiers d'Art. In 1937, with Tiroux Yamanaka, he organized the international Surrealism exhibition in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya and Kanazawa in collaboration with Paul Éluard, Georges Hugnet and Roger Penrose. In 1938, he published Modern Art, a book in which he defends avant-garde art, and in 1940, he wrote the first monograph devoted to the painter Joan Miró.