(1935 – 3 April 2020), born 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. was a Japanese engraver artist, photographer, and occasional politician.Description of the Raika Dōmei exhibition "Hakata Yamadori", Gallery 58. Accessed 15 March 2009.
Biography Born in Tokyo, Akiyama studied engraving at Musashino Art School (the predecessor to Musashino Art University) and then worked as an industrial designer for an electrical company. He started exhibiting his own tin engravings and other work from 1965, and in both 1975 and 1979 ran for Governor of Tokyo, bringing his pop art into the process. From 1999 until 2003, Akiyama was an adjunct professor at Sapporo University. From 1992 until around 2009, Akiyama joined Genpei Akasegawa and Yutaka Takanashi in the informal group Raika Dōmei.
Exhibitions of his work include "Akiyama Yūtokutaishi no sekai-ten" () in Ikeda 20-Seiki Bijutsukan (, Itō, Shizuoka) in 1994. Work by Akiyama is in the permanent collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum.As stated in the museum's page about Akiyama (accessed 15 March 2009).
He appears in the film Yūheisha/Terorisuto (2007), directed by Masao Adachi.IMDB page for the film (accessed 15 March 2009).
Publications
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. .
Notes
External links Akiyama's blog Akiyama's 1975 election poster (as linked from this page within the MOMAT website) Akiyama's 1979 election poster Review by Seigow Matsuoka of Akiyama's book Hōmatsu ketsujin retsuden.