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Gutai
Gutai is the first book in English to examine Japan’s best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations 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 Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai’s pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and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.
Great Waves and Mountains
This richly illustrated volume addresses the history of collecting Japanese art and the factors that contributed to the growth of collections in North America following the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Passion for Peonies
There’s no more breathtaking signal of summer’s onset than the blooming of peonies. Stunningly beautiful and relatively easy to grow, peonies are a favorite flower everywhere they can be cultivated and for good reason: the heady fragrances and enchanting colors of a peony-rich display create an immersive experience that has enamored generations of garden lovers across the world. This passion is on full display each June at the historic Peony Garden of the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum. Originally planted in 1922, the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden now boasts North America’s largest public collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies. The Peony Garden has become a sacred spa...
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Weaving Flesh and Blood Into Sacred Architecture
Javanese art is an international art with strong local overtones. In lieu of extant texts, art historical study of the smallest units of surviving significationornamentationcan provide a wealth of information about artists and patrons. It certainly reveals the unique character of this remarkable, yet understudied World Heritage site.
Human Subjectivity and Confrontation with Materials in Japanese Art
This dissertation focuses on the remarkable approaches toward materials in art objects taken by the Japanese modernist art group the Gutai Art Association (Gutai) and its leader Yoshihara Jiro (1905-1972) in the mid-1950s. Responding to the Japanese art community's concerns with representation of human experience and national identity, Yoshihara and the Gutai members placed special emphasis on how the intervention of the artist became inscribed in the materials of the object. Their recognition of the importance of the artist's engagement with materials as an expression of human presence in visual art radically departed from the contemporary Japanese art practice of representation and interpretation of the physical world. By expanding the use of tools and materials beyond oil paint, paintbrush and canvas, Gutai transformed the practice of Japanese modernist art that had evolved in dialogue with Western art since the late 19th century. In the process they grappled with the thorny issue of national identity in cultural production.
Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
"The East Asian maps presented in this study are all found in the MacLean Collection"--Introduction.
