Collaborative, ephemeral, self-reflective, multidisciplinary - the work generated by the rapid series of experimental artistic movements that energized the public sphere in postwar Japan was totally unexpected.
Art, anti-art, non-art: experimentations in the public sphere in postwar …
by Tomii, Reiko, Merewether, Charles, Hiro, Rika Iezumi, Exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950 - 1970, Los Angeles, Calif, Getty Research Institute, Exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art, (Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950 - 1970 ; (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Introduction to two decades of artistic ferment in postwar Japan. As that devastated nation confronted the fraught legacy of World War II, a rapid succession of avant-garde groups began experimenting with new media and processes of making art, disrupting conventions to address t…