Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji

by Steven C. Ridgely

Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the meaning and importance of his wide-ranging, often playful body of work.
Ridgely places Terayama at the center of Japanese and global counterculture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816667535
• ISBN13: 9780816667536
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"