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Primary Documents 1945–1989 ART IN JAPAN FROM POSTWAR POSTMODERN TO Doryun Chong is Associate Curator in the Department FROM POSTWAR TO POSTMODERN: of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art. ART IN JAPAN 1945–1989 Michio Hayashi is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Primary Documents Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo. A trove of primary source materials, From Postwar to Kenji Kajiya is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts, From Postwar to Postmodern reveals a bracingly innovative, mul- Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–1989: Primary Documents Hiroshima City University. tifarious, and thoroughly international cultural sphere. A nuanced is an invaluable scholarly resource for readers who wish survey of primary texts betrays a roiling milieu in which form to explore the fascinating subject of avant-garde art in Fumihiko Sumitomo is an independent curator and and content, modernism and tradition, realism and abstraction, postwar Japan. In this comprehensive anthology, an array scholar. things (mono) and ideas (koto) were hotly debated amid a his- of key documents, artist manifestos, critical essays, and torically specific context of violence, guilt, and trauma. New roundtable discussions are translated into English for the ways of working—from the intermedia activities of Gutai and first time. The pieces cover a diverse assortment of artis- Cover: Tanaka Atsuko. Untitled (detail). 1964. the Experimental Workshop to collaborations in performance, tic mediums—including painting, photography, film, per- Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 10' 11 1/4" × 7' 4 3/4" architecture, and other disciplines—informed art both within and formance, architecture, and design—and illuminate their (333.4 × 225.4 cm).
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