Table of contents : Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Postwar Vectors in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts 1. The Occupation and Modernity Part One: Experimental Voyages: The 1950s Overview 2. The Experimental Workshop 3. Avant-Garde Visual Culture: Local and Historical 4. Concrete Abstractions, Abstract Expressions 5. The Sogetsu Art Center: Avant-Garde Refinement Part Two: Alternate Modernities in the 1960s: Locating the Everyday Overview 6. Beyond Form and Formality 7. Events, Objects and Concepts 8. Contemporary Art Music and Dance in the 1960s: Transcultural Idioms 9. The Monoha Moment 10. Art, Money, and Politics 11. Radicals and Realists Notes Sources Cited Index