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Gutai : decentering modernism / Ming Tiampo.

By: Publication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: xiv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cmContent type:
  • $atext$2rdacontent.
Media type:
  • unmediated$2rdamedia.
Carrier type:
  • volume.
ISBN:
  • 9780226801650 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226801667
  • 0226801659
  • 0226801667
Subject(s):
Contents:
Decentering originality -- Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years -- Gutai strategies of originality -- Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy
The interpoetics of distance -- Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock -- Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art -- Quantization: Gutai portables
Lines of flight: the Gutai journal -- Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal -- American correspondences -- European correspondences
The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions -- Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958 -- New York, 1958 -- Turin, 1959
International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions -- Osaka, 1962 -- Amsterdam, 1965 -- Paris, 1965
New directions in Gutai exhibitions -- 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965 -- Gutai art for the space age, 1967 -- Expo '70
Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies
Summary: 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 Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai's pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by midcentury developments in mass media and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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.

Decentering originality -- Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years -- Gutai strategies of originality -- Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy

The interpoetics of distance -- Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock -- Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art -- Quantization: Gutai portables

Lines of flight: the Gutai journal -- Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal -- American correspondences -- European correspondences

The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions -- Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958 -- New York, 1958 -- Turin, 1959

International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions -- Osaka, 1962 -- Amsterdam, 1965 -- Paris, 1965

New directions in Gutai exhibitions -- 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965 -- Gutai art for the space age, 1967 -- Expo '70

Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies

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.