Gutai : splendid playground

Author(s): Munroe, Alexandra | Ming, Tiampo

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Main Title
Gutai : splendid playground
Author(s)
Ming, Tiampo
Munroe, Alexandra
Publisher
New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2013
Collation
316 p. : col. ill.
28 cm.
ISBN
9780892074891
Dewey Class
759.952
Contents
Gutai art manifesto / Yoshihara Jirō -- All the landscapes : Gutai's world / Alexandra Munroe -- Please draw freely / Ming Tiampo -- Plates / Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munroe. Play : an unihibited act ; Network : to introduce our works to the world ; Concept : can a piece of cloth be a work of art? ; The concrete : the scream of matter itself ; Performance painting : pictures with time and space ; environment : Gutai art for the space age -- New perspectives on Gutai. Prewar Kansai cosmopolitanism and postwar Gutai / Hirai Shōichi ; An experiment in collectivism : Gutai's prewar origin and postwar evolution / Reiko Tomii ; Abstract space in concrete terms : reconsidering Gutai painting / Katō Mizuho ; Limitless world : Gutai's reinvention in environment art and intermedia / Midori Yoshimoto ; Communication malfunction : happenings and Gutai / Judith Rodenbeck ; Gutai and Brazilian concrete art / Pedro Erber -- Artists' writings / compiled and translated by Reiko Tomii ; with Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munroe -- Chonology / complied by Hirai Shōichi ; Gutai artists, 1954-72 -- Artist biographies / compiled by Nakajima Izumi.
Language
English
Subject
Conceptual art -- Japan -- Exhibitions
BRN
1497

Notes

  • Artists: Artists: Akira Kanayama, Atsuko Tanaka, Chiyu Uemae, Fujiko Shiraga, Jiro Yoshihara, Kazuo Shiraga, Kikunami Joji, Kumiko Imanaka, Michio Yoshihara, Minoru Onoda, Minoru Yoshida, Motonao Takasaki, Norio Imai, Saburo Murakami, Sadaharu Horio, Sadamasa Motonaga, Seiko Kanno, Senkichiro Nasaka, Shozo Shimamoto, Shuji Mukai, Takesada Matsutani, Toshio Yoshida, Tsuruko Yamazaki, Yasuo Sumi, Yozo Ukita, Yuko Nasaka, Yutaka Matsuda.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition held at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 15 Feb to 8 May 2013. With artist biographies and selected bibliography

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