Japan’s Postwar Art Wave - ARTnews.com
WEBJan 9, 2013 · Museum and gallery shows on Mono-ha, Gutai, and other avant-garde movements in Japan from the ’50s onward are shedding new light on an era previously unknown to the West.
Japan's conflicted art of World War II - The Japan Times
WEBJapan's conflicted art of World War II. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's current exhibition, "1945±5: The Works that Survived through the Turbulent and Reconstruction Era,"...
Japanese post-war avant-garde: How a group of Japanese artists ...
WEBMar 17, 2022 · Most scholars identify World War II as the critical turning point for Japanese art. After the war, Japanese artists shifted their interest from surrealism and other modernist forms of imagery to experimental mediums that rejected traditional styles and paved the way for the emergence of contemporary art manifestations.
Five Artists in Japan's Postwar Avant-Garde | Contemporary Art …
WEBMay 20, 2020 · From EYE-EAST, works by five leading avant-garde Japanese artists provide facets to the identity and expression of contemporary art in Japan after 1945.
Shedding New Light on Radical Postwar Artists From Japan
WEBMay 21, 2021 · Among them is radical art in postwar Japan, a moment when artists were reimagining homegrown styles and techniques while incorporating avant-garde developments from Europe and the United States.
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art (Getty Center Exhibitions)
WEBDuring the next quarter century, Japan endured the legacy of the atomic bomb, as well as the experiences of foreign occupation and a rapid transformation into a metropolitan society. This exhibition highlights a dynamic phase of avant-garde art in postwar Japan, which was characterized by self-reflection and multimedia experimentation.
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American …
WEBMar 5, 2010 · The Art of Gaman showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast — more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth — were ordered …
Full article: Transwar Art in Japan - Taylor & Francis Online
WEBDec 20, 2022 · Post-war Japanese art has come to mean a very particular thing: art made by artists who were born in the 1930s and who began to make avant-garde works at the end of the Allied occupation of Japan in 1952, following the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the Allied Powers at the end of World War II.
WEBAsato Ikeda¶s book The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art During the Second World War offers an important consideration of wartime art. Ikeda, a notable scholar in the field of Japanese art history, often examines the ways that Japanese visual culture intersects with imperialism, war, gender, and sexuality.
Project MUSE - The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art ...
WEBAsato Ikeda's Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War looks into paintings produced in Japan from the mid-1930s to 1945—a time of colonial expansion, political oppression, and total war—to reveal the political and ideological functions of Japanese pictorial art.
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