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Available
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Collection
Publication
Harry N. Abrams / Yokohama Museum of Art (1996), 416 pages
Description
This is a catalogue of Japanese avante-garde art since 1945. It surveys some 200 works, including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, film and installation art, by more than 100 artists. Rebellious groups such as the Gutai, a 1950s experimental movement, are also represented.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
416 p.; 12 inches
ISBN
0810925931 / 9780810925939
Other editions
Japanese Art After 1945 by Alexandra Munroe (Hardcover)
Call number
EX.USA.JAA
Library's review
The catalog of a current U.S. exhibition of postwar, avant-garde Japanese art (at the Guggenheim in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art), this volume is a significant publication about a tradition that has received scant attention in this country until now.
Beginning with the Gutai
Exhibition dates:
Yokohama: February 5 - March 30, 1994
Guggenheim Museum SOHO, New York: September 14 - January 8, 1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens: May 31 - August 27, 1995
Beginning with the Gutai
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movement, the exhibition chronicles art in every medium from paintings and prints to video, performance art, and installations. Substantive essays by curator Alexandra Munroe, video artist Nam June Paik, and others provide historical background and address the critical question of the relationship of this art to both traditional Japanese and contemporary Western aesthetics. An important acquisition for academic and large public libraries with contemporary art collections.Exhibition dates:
Yokohama: February 5 - March 30, 1994
Guggenheim Museum SOHO, New York: September 14 - January 8, 1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens: May 31 - August 27, 1995
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Pages
416