Money, Trains, and Guillotines - Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan

Informationen zum Autor William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: William Marotti, Marotti William
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2013
• EAN: 9780822349808
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4980-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history