Gutai : Splendid Playground
  • exhibition catalogue
  • hardcover / other
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 28 x 22.7 cm.
  • 316 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780892074891

Gutai : Splendid Playground

Alexandra Munroe, Ming Tiampo, Yoshihara Jiro, Hirai Shoichi, Reiko Tomii, Kato Mizuho, Midori Yoshimoto, Judith Rodenbeck, Pedro Erber, Lyn Hsieh, Nakajima Izumi

Gutai : Splendid Playground

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition held February 15 - May 8, 2013. Texts by Alexandra Munroe, Ming Tiampo, Yoshihara Jiro, Hirai Shoichi, Reiko Tomii, Kato Mizuho, Midori Yoshimoto, Judith Rodenbeck, Pedro Erber, Lyn Hsieh, Nakajima Izumi. Includes appendix featuring a selection of artists' writings, illustrated chronology, artist biographies and bibliography.

"The Gutai Art Association was founded by Yoshihara Jiro in 1954 in the cosmopolite town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling 59 artists and is one of the most radical movements in postwar Japanese art history. This exhibition catalogue demonstrates the range of bold and innovative creativity present in the avant-garde movement, to examine the aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan and the West, and to further establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art. Organized thematically and chronologically to explore Gutai's unique approach to materials, concepts, process, performativity and enviroment, this publication investigates the group's radical experimentation across a range of media and styles, and demonstrates how individual artists pushed the limits of what art could be or mean in a post-atomic era. The range includes painting, conceptual art, performance, film, installation art, sound art, interactive art, light art and kinetic art. Illustrating some 120 objects by 25 artists and featuring both iconic Gutai and lesser-known works, Splendid Playground presents a rich survey reflecting new scholarship, especially on 'late Gutai' works dating from 1965 to 1972." -- publisher's statement.

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