Gutai
Subtitle: Splendid Playground
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim
Published: Mar 31, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780892074891
Description: "The Gutai Art Association was founded by Yoshihara Jiro in 1954 in the cosmopolite town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling 59 artists and is one of the most radical movements in postwar Japanese art history. Published in conjunction with the first United States museum retrospective ever devoted to Gutai, exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, "Gutai: Splendid Playground" surveys the influential Japanese collective and artistic movement. This exhibition catalogue aims to demonstrate the range of bold and innovative creativity present in the avant-garde movement, to examine the aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan and the West, and to further establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art"--Publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Gutai: Splendid Playground