Money, trains, and guillotines art and revolution in 1960s Japan /

• Main Author: Marotti, William A. (Author)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
• Series: Asia-Pacific.
• Subjects: 1900 - 1999; Arts, Japanese > 20th century.; Arts > Political aspects > History > 20th century. > Japan; Arts and society > History > 20th century. > Japan; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > History > 20th century. > Japan; Politics and culture > Japan.; ART / Asian; Arts and society.; Arts, Japanese.; Arts > Political aspects.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Politics and culture.; Japan.; Electronic books.; History.
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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.

Table of Contents:

• Part I.
• Part III.
• Part II.
• The Vision of the Police
• The Occupation, the New Emperor System, and the Figure of Japan
• The Process of Art
• Artistic Practice Finds Its Object: The Avant-Garde and the Yomiuri Indépendant
• The Yomiuri Indépendant: Making and Displacing History
• The Yomiuri Anpan
• Art against the Police: Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-Yen Prints, the State, and the Borders of the Everyday.
• Theorizing Art and Revolution.
• Beyond the Guillotine: Speaking of Art/ Art Speaking
• Naming the Real
• The Moment of the Avant-Garde.