Avant-garde Art And Non-dominant Thought In Postwar Japan: Image, Matter, Separation (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)
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Paperback/English
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Description
This book offers a reassessment of how matter - in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture - pursued a radical definition of multiplicity, against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and critics such as Okamoto Taro, Hanada Kiyoteru, Kawara On, Isozaki Arata, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and Nakahira Takuma, this highly illustrated text identifies formal oppositions frequently evoked in the Japanese avant