Marotti Money, Trains, and Guillotines

Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9399-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific

During the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marotti, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Chronology of Select Events xiii

Introduction 1

Part I. Art against the Police: Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-Yen Prints, the State, and the Borders of the Everyday 9

1. The Vision of the Police 15

2. The Occupation, the New Emperor System, and the Figure of Japan 37

3. The Process of Art 74

Part II. Artistic Practice Finds Its Object: The Avant-Garde and the Yomiuri Indépendant 111

4. The Yomiuri Indépendant: Making and Displacing History 117

5. The Yomiuri Anpan 152

Part III. Theorizing Art and Revolution 201

6. Beyond the Guillotine: Speaking of Art / Art Speaking 207

7. Naming the Real 245

8. The Moment of the Avant-Garde 284

Epilogue 317

Notes 319

Select Bibliography 393

Index 405

Über Autor(innen)

William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.