Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan

by Reiko Tomii

Book Overview

Innovative artists in 1960s Japan who made art in the "wilderness"--away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support--with global resonances.

1960s Japan was one of the world's major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, and sometimes antecedent to, their Western counterparts, they found themselves in a new reality of "international contemporaneity" (kokusaiteki...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262034123
• ISBN13: 9780262034128
• Release Date: January 1812
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher