Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781501715044
Subjects: Art, political aspects; Social action; Art, japanese; Art, modern, 20th century
Description: "A cultural history of the relationship between art and politics in Japan, 1945-1960. Highlights the transformational nature of the early postwar period against the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s. Provides insight into the present by focusing on a period similarly characterized by decentralization and de-professionalization of culture and expansion of conceptions of what art is and who should be doing it"--