Art in Japan 1945-1989
ed. by Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Fumihiko Sumitomo and Kenji Kajiya
- Editor(s)
- Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Fumihiko Sumitomo, Kenji Kajiya
- Publication
- New York : MoMA, 2012
- Scope
- 440 Pages, illustrated, 24.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822353683
Comprehensive anthology consisting of key documents, artist manifestos, critical essays, and roundtable discussions - translated into English for the first time. The publication covers a broad range of artistic medium and illuminate their various points of convergence in the Japanese context.The collection is organized chronologically and thematically to highlight significant movements, works, and artistic phenomena, such as the pioneering artist collectives Gutai and Hi Red Center, the influential photography periodical Provoke, and the emergence of video art in the 1980s. Interspersed throughout the volume are more than twenty newly commissioned texts by contemporary scholars. Including Bert Winther-Tamaki on art and the Occupation and Reiko Tomii on the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, these pieces supplement and provide a historical framework for the primary source materials.
- Person as subject
- Tanaka Atsuko, Morita Shiryu, Nam June Paik, Dumb Type, ...[et al.]
- Keywords
- photography , film , video , painting , installation , sculpture , drawing , new media
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 2: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties
- Remarks
- Incl. Index, Chronology 1945-1989
based on keyword
