Japanese Art After 1945

Name: Japanese Art After 1945
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ISBN: 9780810925939

ISBN-10: 0810925931

ISBN-13: 9780810925939

Edition: 1996

Authors: Alexandra Munroe

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This provocative book is the first in English on Japanese avant-garde art after 1945. It surveys some 200 works including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, film, and installation art - by more than 100 artists.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 9/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 9.00" wide x 12.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 4.356
Language: English



Preface


Forewords


Acknowledgments


Notes to the Reader



Introduction



Scream Against the Sky



Essay: As Witness to Postwar Japanese Art




Japan As Museum: Okakura Tenshin and Ernest Fenollosa




Artistic Subjectivity in the Taisho and Early Showa Avant-Garde




Japanese Thematics in Postwar American Art: From Soi-Disant Zen to the Assertion of Asian-American Identity




Some Issues of Circumstance: Focusing on the 1990s




Japanese Art After 1945


Essay: To Catch Up or Not to Catch Up with the West: Hijikata and Hi Red Center




To Challenge the Mid-Summer Sun: The Gutai Group




Circle: Modernism and Tradition




Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Independant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s




Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional Art




A Box of Smile: Tokyo Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and the School of Metaphysics




The Laws of Situation: Mono-ha and Beyond the Sculptural Paradigm




X: Experimental Film and Video




Infinity Nets: Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Painting




Hinomaru Illumination: Japanese Art of the 1990s




Critical Anthology



Readings in Japanese Art After 1945


Glossary


Bibliography


Index