Experimental arts in postwar Japan :

Sas, Miryam. 2010

Experimental arts in postwar Japan : moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return / Miryam Sas. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010. - xvii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Harvard East Asian monographs ; 329 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: death acts (survival acts) -- Post-Shingeki's edge. No holds barred: Betsuyaku Minoru and the paradoxes of total commitment -- Terayama Shuji: gender, power, and the imperative voice -- Blindness and the visuality of desire -- Intersubjective spaces, communal dreams -- Theories of encounter. Theories of encounter: breaking the everyday -- Imaginations of return: film, Buto, photography. Marks the spot: experimental film crossings -- On homecoming: Hijikata's writings and Buto -- Provoke era: new languages of Japanese photography -- Conclusion: counterfeit coins, phantasms.

9780674053403 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2010045150




Arts, Japanese--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Japan.

NK8645 .S67 1993

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