1st Edition

Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan Image, Matter, Separation

By K. Yoshida Copyright 2021
256 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and critics such as Okamoto Taro, Hanada Kiyoteru, Kawara On, Isozaki Arata, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and... Read more

1. On Severance  2. Fugitive Matter  3. Anthropofugal Transformations  4. Modular Concrescence  5. Clandestine Resphiliacs  6. Architecture and Ignorance  7. An Infinite Periphery  8. Toward Irrelation

Biography

K. Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the Department of Global Arts, Media, and Writing at the University of California, Merced.