Mavo
Subtitle: Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931
By: Gennifer Weisenfeld.
Series: Twentieth-century Japan
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Murayama, Tomoyoshi, -- 1901-; Mavo (Group of artists); Arts, Japanese -- Japan -- Tokyo -- 20th century; Dadaism -- Influence; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Western-style painting in Japan: Mimesis, individualism, and Japanese nationhood; title: A prehistory of Mavo; title: Anatomy of a movement; title: The aesthetics and politics of rebellion; title: The Mavo artist and Japan's culture industry; title: Theater, theatricality, and the politics of pleasure; title: Epilogue: Laying claim to Mavo's legacy.