Experimental arts in postwar Japan : moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return /

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In the years of rapid economic growth following the protest movements of the 1960s, artists and intellectuals in Japan searched for a means of direct impact on the whirlwind of historical and cultural transformations of their time. Yet while the artists often called for such "direct" encou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sas, Miryam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2011.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 329.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Arts, Japanese > 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Japan.
Arts japonais > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Arts, Japanese.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avantgarde
Kunst
Butô-Tanz
Theater
Fotografie
Japansk konst.
Japan.
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: death acts (survival acts)
  • Post-Shingeki's edge. No holds barred: Betsuyaku Minoru and the paradoxes of total commitment
  • Terayama Shuji: gender, power, and the imperative voice
  • Blindness and the visuality of desire
  • Intersubjective spaces, communal dreams
  • Theories of encounter. Theories of encounter: breaking the everyday
  • Imaginations of return: film, Buto, photography. Marks the spot: experimental film crossings
  • On homecoming: Hijikata's writings and Buto
  • Provoke era: new languages of Japanese photography
  • Conclusion: counterfeit coins, phantasms.

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