MAVO: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520223387
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Political ideologies; Influence; Arts, Japanese; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Japan; Asian; Art / General; 20th century; Dadaism; Mavo (Group of artists); Tokyo
First sentence: MAVO'S PREDECESSORS HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN A DISCOURSE ON WESTERN-STYLE painting (yoga) even before the inception of the Meiji state.