TOKYO 1955-1970(9780870708343)

Tokyo1955-1970:ANewAvant-GardeexplorestheextraordinaryconvergenceofartistsandothercreatorsinJapan'scapitalcityduringtheradicallytransformativepostwarperiod.Examiningworksfromarangeofmedia--painting,sculpture,photography,drawing,printmaking,videoandfilm,aswellasgraphicdesign,architecture,musicalcompositionanddance--thisisthefirstpublicationinEnglishtofocusindepthonthefullscopeofpostwarartinJapan.Duringthisperiod,TokyowasavibranthubthatattractedsuchcriticalartisticfiguresasTaroOkamoto,HiroshiNakamura,Ay-O,YokoOno,MiekoShiomiandTetsumiKudo;photographersDaidoMoriyama,EikohHosoeandShomeiTomatsu;illustratorsandgraphicdesignersTadanoriYokoo,KoheiSugiuraandKiyoshiAwazu;andarchitectsArataIsozakiandKishoKurokawa;aswellasmanyimportantartists'collectives.CuratorDoryunChong'sessayinvestigatesTokyo'ssociopoliticalcontextandthemassiveurbanchangesthatsetthestageforthecitytoemergeasavitalnodeintheinternationalavant-gardenetwork.EssaysbyscholarsHayashiMichioandMiryamSasandcuratorMikaYoshitakediscusscriticalconceptsinartandcultureatthistime,including"graphism,"whichmanifesteditselfacrossvariousmediums;thedevelopmentofnewsculpturallanguages;andthe"intermedia"tendencythatengenderedprovocativecross-pollinationamongartisticgenres.MasatoshiNakajimaprovidesanillustratedchronologyandYuriMitsudasuppliesartistbiographies.Tokyo1955-1970:ANewAvant-Gardebringsfreshinsighttothisdynamicmetropolisduringatimeofremarkableartisticburgeoning.