Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return

'In this book, Miryam Sas explores the theoretical and cultural implications of experimental arts in a range of media. Casting light on important moments in the arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s, this study focuses first on underground (post-shingeki) theatre and then on related works of experimental film and video, butō dance and photography. Emphasizing the complex and sophisticated theoretical grounding of these artists through their works, practices, and writings, this book also locates Japanese experimental artists in an extensive, sustained dialogue with key issues of contemporary critical theory.’ (Excerpt from front flap)

Access level

Onsite

author

Miryam SAS

publisher

Harvard University Asia Center (Cambridge, United States)

Location code

REF.SAM4

Language

English

Keywords

photography, art history, Japan

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

275

ISBN / ISSN

9780674053403

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction: Death Acts (Survival Acts)

Part I: Modes of Engagement: Post-Shingeki's Edge

1. No Holds Barred: Betsuyaku Minoru and the Paradoxes of Total Commitment

2. Terayama Shūji: Gender, Power, and the Imperative Voice

3. Blindness and the Visuality of Desire

4. Intersubjective Spaces, Communal Dreams

Part II: Theories of Encounter

5. Theories of Encounter: Breaking the Everyday

Part III: Imaginations of Return: Film, Butō, Photography

6. X Marks the Spot: Experimental Film Crossings

7. On Homecoming: Hijikata's Writings and Butō

8. The Provoke Era: New Languages of Japanese Photography

Conclusion: Counterfeit Coins/Phantasms

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return

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