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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas R H Havens |
ISBN: | 0824830113 9780824830113 |
OCLC Number: | 63108339 |
Description: | x, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Postwar vectors in the Japanese nonverbal arts -- The occupation and modernity -- Experimental voyages : the 1950s -- The experimental workshop -- Avant-garde visual culture : local and historical -- Concrete abstractions, abstract expressions -- The Sōgetsu Art Center : avant-garde refinement -- Alternative modernities in the 1960s : locating the everyday -- Beyond form and formality -- Events, objects, and concepts -- Contemporary art music and dance in the 1960s : transcultural idioms -- The Monoha moment -- Art, money, and politics -- Radicals and realists. |
Responsibility: | Thomas R.H. Havens. |
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Abstract:
Discusses Japan's avant-garde artists, their work, and the historical environment in which they produced it during the two most creative decades of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 1960s. This work surveys censorship and arts policy during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952).
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Tom Havens' indispensable new book provides a magisterial guide to the postwar Japanese avant-garde in the nonverbal arts. - David Goodman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ""Meticulously researched and written in impeccably clear and jargon-free prose, the book is particularly rich in material garnered through personal interviews of the principals of the period."" - John Whittier Treat, Yale University Read more...
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