Catalogue of an exhibition of optical art, kinetic art, and depiction of movement at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, in 1988. "The Twentieth century can be called an era of 'movement.' The life and environment are filled with speed that is uncomparable to that of the nineteenth century. As if to keep in step with the time, many artists found fascination in expressing 'movement' and 'speed' in the early years of the twentieth century. Among the pioneer works of that time, there were endeavors to incorporate a sense of movement in the unmovable works while other attempts were made to produce motion in the works themselves. These endeavors were followed up by Op art and kinetic art, and the realm of art was expanded further by the use of technology. Today 'the expression of movement' is more diversified as it is linked with various questions such as machine age and nature, time and human gesture. The exhibition consists of five sections; 1. illusion of the eye, 2. moment, 3. orbit of movement, orbit of time, 4. natural movement, 5. mechanical movement." Extract taken from foreword of catalogue. Japanese artists (see below for list) works shown alongside European counterparts, such as, Eadweard Muybridge, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Tinguely, to Bridget Riley and David Hockney. Includes essays by Seigoh Matsuoka and Yuji Maeyama.
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EX.JAP.MMA
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English, 

French, 

Japanese

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1988

No of pages

109

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Nil

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1

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catalogue

Chapter headings

Motion and Imbalance in Japanese Art - Seigoh MATSUOKA, 松岡正剛

The Twentieth Century Art and Movement - Yuji MAEYAMA, 前山裕司

Movement and Modern Art
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Movement and Modern Art