Radicalism in the wilderness : international contemporaneity and 1960s art in Japan / Reiko Tomii.
Author(s): Tomii, Reiko
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Radicalism in the wilderness : international contemporaneity and 1960s art in Japan
- Author(s)
- Tomii, Reiko
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016.
- Collation
- xviii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color)
24 cm. - ISBN
- 9780262535311
- Dewey Class
- 709.52
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Three in the wilderness -- 1964, Shimo Suwa: Matsuzawa Yutaka -- 1968, Shionomisaki: The Play -- 1970, Niigata: GUN -- Where was the Wilderness? -- Linking Local and Global -- 1. Introduction to "International Contemporaneity" and "Contemporary Art" -- Proposal for Methodology: "International Contemporaneity" and Beyond -- Brief Note on "International Contemporaneity" -- "Contemporaneity" as a Geohistorical Concept -- Comparing "Similar yet Dissimilar": "Connections" and "Resonances" -- Exploding the Narrative: Contemporaneity and "Narrative Tangents" -- Overview of History: The Rise of "Contemporary Art" -- Expanded 1960s of Japanese Art -- Mainstreaming of the Avant-Garde: Another Post-Yomiuri Story -- Discursive Origins of International Contemporaneity in 1960s Japan -- 2. Matsuzawa Yutaka's Wilderness of Nil -- Making of Mr. Psi: Toward Conceptualism -- Transdisciplinary Mind: From Shimo Suwa to New York and Back -- Theory and Practice of Psi: Before "Revelation" -- Nascent Conceptualism: Apparatus, Operation Manual, Container -- Matsuzawa's Radical Reconstruction of Art -- Legend (De)constructed: The Beginning of "Art of Kannen" -- Vanishing Acts as "Anti-Civilization" -- White Circle: An Exercise in Non-Sensory Painting -- 3. Play's Collective Voyages into the Wilderness -- Prehistories in the Post-Yomiuri Years -- Independent Art Festival in Gifu -- Ikemizu Keiichi Was Homo Sapiens -- Early Years: A Gathering of Happeners -- Into the Wilderness -- Launching Voyage -- Play's Collectivism -- Destinations in Nature Near and Far -- 4. Gun's Aspirations from the Wilderness -- Tokyo as A Distant Center: Gun's Early Years -- Wilderness Potential: Closing the Distance and Engaging the Social -- Stones of the Shinano River: Horikawa Michio's Mail Art -- Snow in Niigata: GUN's Land Art -- Anti-Military Soldier in Sado: GUN's Political Turns -- 5. Connection Studies -- Following Narrative Tangents -- Tokyo Biennale 1970 as a Contact Point -- Matsuzwa Yutaka's Communal Internationalism -- Language Matters -- Play's Happenings Discourse -- Gainen (Concept) versus Kannen (Idea) -- 6. Resonance Studies -- Matsuzawa Yutaka's Conceptualism Compared -- In a Spectrum of Immateriality -- Japanese Pioneers: Matsuzawa Yutaka, Yoko Ono, and On Kawara -- Land Art: Digging into the Local -- "Culture of Showing" and Photography -- Together in Nature Nearby -- EPILOGUE -- Three in the World -- 2008, Norwich: Horikawa Michio -- 2009, New York: Matsuzawa Yutaka -- 2012, Paris: The Play -- Regrouping in an Open Field -- APPENDIX: SELECT TRANSLATION OF MATSUZAWA YUTAKA'S WORKS -- On Another Work in Another Container, or on Cutting (1963) -- Brief Report on the Discovery of the Beginning of Non-Sensory Painting (1964) -- Psi Corpse (1964) -- Void: Collective Participation of "Anti-Civilization" School (1965).
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Japanese -- 20th century
- BRN
- 9192
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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709.52 TOM
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Available
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