1st Edition
Nakanishi Natsuyuki and the Global History of Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture Accounting for Assemblage
Introduction
Exceptional Eggs: Considering Their Complexity
Egg Hunt
From Center to Margin: Egg Stories and the Objecthood of Compact Objects
Eggs as Assemblage
No More Eggs: Assemblage in an Expanded Field
From Crowded to Colored: A Note on Charting a Course Among Eggs
1. Hold an Egg
Compacted Contents: Nakanishi’s Egg Experience
Egg Enactment: The Yamanote Line Incident
(Anti)Mapping, (Anti)Painting, and Proto-Egg Production
2. Eggs in Compact Constellation
Eggs in Theory and Practice
Egg Expertise
Eggs and Their Contemporaries
3. Eggs Uncompacted
Neo-Dada in New York
Nouveau réalisme in Paris
Compact Combinations: (In)Convenient Curiosities and Ceremonials
4. Eggs in 1968
Compact and Non-Compliant: Contained Chaos in the 1968 Compact Objects
Egg Enterprise: Fluxus and Ephemerality
5. Eggs in 1965–66
Surrender to the Egg
Eggs in Color
Meditative Mediums: Eggs and the Mostly Monochrome
Assemblage Again: Keeping the Eggs Level
Eggs Over Easy: Medium Messages
6. No More Eggs
Dispersion and Diffusion of Postwar Assemblage and Sculpture
7. Assemblage in an Expanded Field
Yuko Mohri’s Compose
Biography
Dan Adler is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art history at York University in Toronto, Canada.
