1st Edition
Art and Street Politics in the Global 1960s Yoshio Nakajima and the Global Avant-Garde
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: DAM ACT: Yoshio Nakajima in Japan, 1957–1964
Yoshiko Shimada
Chapter 2: Dancer, Happener, Provo: Yoshio Nakajima and the Dutch Happening Scene, 1964–1965
Peter van der Meijden
Chapter 3: Yoshio Nakajima and the Interplay of Art and Activism during the Mid-Sixties in Belgium
Stefan Wouters
Chapter 4: Yoshio Nakajima: A Japanese Artist from Sweden
Tania Ørum
Chapter 5: When Art Grabs You: Grasping Art and Politics in the Global 1960s with Nakajima Yoshio
William Marotti
Selected Chronology
Bibliography
Biography
William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches modern Japanese history with an emphasis on art and politics, everyday life, and cultural-historical issues. His works address the 1960s and the politics of 1968 as a global event through examinations of art, cultural politics, and oppositional practices. His publications include Money, Trains and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (2013), "The Art of the Everyday, as Crisis: Objets, Installations, Weapons, and the Origin of Politics" (2015) and "The Performance of Police and the Theatre of Protest" (2021).
