Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism 9780824842048

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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

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