Radicalism in the Wilderness
International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan
$70.86
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 March 2018
Summary
Innovative artists in 1960s Japan who made art in the “wilderness”-away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support-with global resonances.1960s Japan was one of the world’s major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, and sometimes antecedent to, their Western counterparts, they found themselves in a new reality of “international contemporaneity” (kokusaiteki dojisei). In this book Reiko Tomii examines three ke…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262535311 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262535319 |
| Author: | Reiko Tomii |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 694g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Radicalism in the Wilderness |
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Radicalism in the Wilderness is impeccably researched and clearly written and organized, offering a wealth of new insight and analysis of modernist art history of Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. By foregrounding the local and presumed periphery, the book builds ‘the global from the bottom up,’ thereby expanding and challenging the understanding of global modernisms.
* Dedalus Foundation *Radicalism in the Wilderness draws a clearly organized, meticulously researched picture of a very important strain of postwar Japanese art.
* Art in America *At once a remarkable demonstration of art-historical erudition and an almost bardic exercise in lyrical tale-telling, this timely analysis… presents a novel take on the idea of the wild.
* Art Monthly *[O]ffers illuminating assessments of several Japanese artists of the 1960s, whom many readers in the US and Europe will probably encounter in its pages for the first time.
* Hyperallergic *About The Author
Reiko Tomii
Reiko Tomii is a New York-based scholar and curator who investigates post-1945 Japanese art in local and global contexts.
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