Gutai - Decentering Modernism

Klappentext "Gutai "is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement! a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings! performances! and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art. Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources! Ming Tiampo considers Gutai's pioneering transnational practice! spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and travel that made the movement's field of reception and influence global in scope. Using these lines of transmission to claim a place for Gutai among modernist art practices while tracing the impact of Japan on art in Europe and America! Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental transnationality of modernism. Ultimately! Tiampo offers a new conceptual model for writing a global history of art! making "Gutai "an important and original contribution to modern art history. Zusammenfassung Examine Gutai! Japan's best-known modern art movement! a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings! performances! and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art.

Product details

• Authors: Ming Tiampo, Tiampo Ming
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2011
• EAN: 9780226801667
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80166-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 218 mm x 283 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Japan, ART / History / General, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Japanese, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, East Asia, Far East, Oriental art