Experimental arts in postwar Japan
Subtitle: moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return
By: Miryam Sas
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 329
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780674053403
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Japanese Arts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: death acts (survival acts); title: Post-Shingeki's edge. No holds barred: Betsuyaku Minoru and the paradoxes of total commitment; title: Terayama Shuji: gender, power, and the imperative voice; title: Blindness and the visuality of desire; title: Intersubjective spaces, communal dreams; title: Theories of encounter. Theories of encounter: breaking the everyday; title: Imaginations of return: film, Buto, photography. Marks the spot: experimental film crossings; title: On homecoming: Hijikata's writings and Buto; title: Provoke era: new languages of Japanese photography; title: Conclusion: counterfeit coins, phantasms.