Japanese art after 1945 : scream against the sky =

Munroe, Alexandra

New York, NY: H. N. Abrams, 1994. Softcover. Black wraps with white text, large red circle on cover. 416 pp. Many bw some color illustrations. VG. Item #211226
ISBN: 9780810935129

Contents: Scream against the sky / Alexandra Munroe -- As witness to postwar Japanese art / Isozaki Arata -- Japan as museum : Okakura Tenshin and Ernest Fenollosa / Karatani K jin -- Artistic subjectivity in the Taisho and early Showa avant-garde / John Clark -- Japanese thematics in postwar American art : from soi-disant Zen to the assertion of Asian-American identity / Bert Winther -- Some issues of circumstance : focusing on the 1990s / Amano Tar -- To catch up or not to catch up with the West : Hijikata and Hi Red Center / Nam June Paik -- To challenge the mid-summer sun : the Gutai group / Alexandra Munroe -- Circle : modernism and tradition / Alexandra Munroe -- Morphology of revenge : the Yomiuri Indépendent artists and social protest tendencies in the 1960s / Alexandra Munroe -- Revolt of the flesh : Ankoku Butoh and obsessional art ; A box of simile : Tokyo Fluxus, conceptual art, and the school of metaphysics ; The laws of situation : Mono-ha and beyond the sculptural paradigm / Alexandra Munroe -- X : experimental film and video / Barbara London -- Infinity nets : aspects of contemporary Japanese painting / Reiko Tomii -- Hinomaru illumination : Japanese art of the 1990s / Alexandra Munroe -- Readings in Japanese art after 1945 / compiled by Nakajima Masatoshi and Reiko Tomii.