(1935 – 3 April 2020) was a

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engraver artist,

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, and occasional politician.Description
of the Raika Dōmei exhibition "Hakata Yamadori", Gallery 58. Accessed 15 March 2009. Born (as Sukenori Akiyama, 美術家の秋山祐徳太子さん死去
Kyodo News, 3 April 2020. Accessed 5 April 2020.) in 1935 in

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, Akiyama studied engraving at Musashino Art School, the predecessor of

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, and then worked as an industrial designer for an electrical company. He started exhibiting his own

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engravings and other work from 1965, and in both 1975 and 1979 stood in elections for

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, bringing pop art into the process. Exhibitions of his work have included "Akiyama Yūtokutaishi no sekai-ten" () in Ikeda 20-Seiki Bijutsukan (, Itō, Shizuoka) in 1994. From 1999 until 2003, Akiyama was an

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. From 1992 until around 2009, Akiyama joined Genpei Akasegawa and

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in the informal group

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. Akiyama appears in the film ''Yūheisha/Terorisuto'' (dir.

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, 2007). Work by Akiyama is in the permanent collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum.As stated in the museum'
page about Akiyama
(accessed 15 March 2009). Akiyama died on 3 April 2020.

Books by Akiyama

*''Tsūzokuteki geijutsuron: Poppu-āto no tatakai'' (). Tokyo: Doyō Bijutsusha, 1985. *''Hōmatsu ketsujin retsuden: Shirazaru chō-zen'ei'' (). Tokyo: Nigensha, 2002. . *''Buriki otoko'' (). Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 2007. . *''Tennen rōjin: Konna ni tanoshii dokkyo-seikatsu'' (). ASCII Shinsho. Tokyo: ASCII Media Works, 2008. .

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External links

Akiyama's blog

Akiyama's 1975 election poster
(as linked fro

within the MOMAT website)
Akiyama's 1979 election poster
by Seigow Matsuoka of Akiyama's book ''Hōmatsu ketsujin retsuden.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Akiyama, Yutokutaishi 1935 births 2020 deaths Artists from Tokyo Japanese street photographers 20th-century Japanese photographers 20th-century Japanese engravers 21st-century Japanese photographers 21st-century Japanese engravers 20th-century Japanese male artists 21st-century Japanese male artists