Japanese art after 1945 : scream against the sky /
Japanese art after nineteen forty five
Alexandra Munroe.
- 416 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
"In association with the Yokohama Museum of Art, The Japan Foundation, The Guggenheim Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.". Includes an extensive anthology of writings by Japanese artists and critics in English translation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-411) and index.
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 Independent 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. Pt. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Pt. II. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Pt. III. Ch. 15.
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Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Japan--20th century--Exhibitions. Art, Japanese--20th century