Gutai
Subtitle: decentering modernism
By: Ming Tiampo
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226801650; 9780226801667
Description: Gutai is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-grade paintings, performances, and in stallations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art. --

Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai's pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by midcentury developments in mass media and travel that made the movement's field of reception and influence global in scope. Using these lines of transmission to claim a place for Gutai among modernist art practices while tracing the impact of Japan on art in Europe and America, Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental transnationality of modernism. Ultimately, Tiampo offers a new conceptual model for writing a global history of art, making Gutai an important and original contribution to modern art history. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Decentering originality; title: Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years; title: Gutai strategies of originality; title: Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy; title: The interpoetics of distance; title: Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock; title: Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art; title: Quantization: Gutai portables; title: Lines of flight: the Gutai journal; title: Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal; title: American correspondences; title: European correspondences; title: The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions; title: Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958; title: New York, 1958; title: Turin, 1959; title: International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions; title: Osaka, 1962; title: Amsterdam, 1965; title: Paris, 1965; title: New directions in Gutai exhibitions; title: 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965; title: Gutai art for the space age, 1967; title: Expo '70; title: Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies.