Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return

by Miryam Sas

In the years of rapid economic growth following the protest movements of the 1960s, artists and intellectuals in Japan searched for a means of direct impact on the whirlwind of historical and cultural transformations of their time. Yet while the artists often called for such "direct" encounter, their works complicate this ideal with practices of interruption, self-reflexive mimesis, and temporal discontinuity. In an era known for idealism and activism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053400
• ISBN13: 9780674053403
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"