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kinetic works: electric fan, light, perspex cylinder court of Edo seventy years before Japan was opened 8 King Lear at the Old Vic Theatre 1940, watercolour
with metal base, etc. Ken Cox was born in 1927 and to the West. Utamaro lived from 1753 to 1806: costume design by Roger Furse for Fay Compton as
studied at Camberwell. He says, 'The work I'm Katsikawa Shunsho 1726 to 1792, usually depicts Regan, in a show at Wright Hepburn, 10 Halkin
showing is an attempt to integrate semantic mean- wrestlers; Toshusai Sharaku was active in 1794 to Arcade, Motcombe Street, S.W.1 until June 15.
ings and related overtones of the works to the sub- 1795. Theatre designs by Roger Furse range from modern
stance, material and motion of the structure. These dress costumes for Hamlet in 1938 to designs for
contribute to the central, symbolic idea in my work. Pickwick in 1965, and include film costumes for
I have taken certain concrete, spatial ideas and have Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Vivien Leigh, Sybil
attempted to present them literally in space.' Thorndike, Ingrid Bergman and Elizabeth Taylor.
7 Lovers ca. 1800, colour print, Kitagawa Utamaro at 9 Free standing construction C2 1968, perspex
Anthony d'Offay, 8 Vigo Street, W.1 in an exhibition model for larger sculpture in perspex, by John Law in
'Actors and Courtesans; The Japanese Print 1770- a four-man show at Greenwich Theatre, 2 Crooms
1800', from June 18 to July 12. Included in this show Hill, Greenwich, S.E.10 from June 4 until July 4.
are prints by Shunsho, Shunei and Sharaku from the John Law, born in London in 1941, studied at Cor-
period of the greatest achievements in colour sham and at The Hague. He has designed sets for the
printing. Until this time prints had been executed in Netherlands Dance Theatre and is now teaching at
black and white and coloured by hand. Many of the Leeds School of Art. Also showing are Colin Jones
works are known only in a few copies and in several and Peter Lowe, both included in the Arts Council
cases are probably unique. Actors and courtesans show 'Unit series progression' of constructions in
were frequent subjects of Japanese prints and those 1967, and Tom Jones, who teaches at Portsmouth.
shown in the exhibition illuminate the life at the