Gutai : decentering modernism / Ming Tiampo.

Author/creator Tiampo, Ming
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Descriptionxiii, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm
Subjects
Yoshihara, Jirō, 1905-1972.
Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai--History.
Conceptual art--Japan.
Performance art--Japan.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Japan. --History. --20th century.

Contents Decentering originality -- Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years -- Gutai strategies of originality -- Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy -- The interpoetics of distance -- Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock -- Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art -- Quantization: Gutai portables -- Lines of flight: the Gutai journal -- Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal -- American correspondences -- European correspondences -- The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions -- Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958 -- New York, 1958 -- Turin, 1959 -- International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions -- Osaka, 1962 -- Amsterdam, 1965 -- Paris, 1965 -- New directions in Gutai exhibitions -- 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965 -- Gutai art for the space age, 1967 -- Expo '70 -- Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010018362
ISBN9780226801650 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226801667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226801659 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226801667 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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