Gutai
Decentering Modernism
Ming Tiampo(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 15. March 2011
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-226-80165-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book in English to examine Gutai, 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 Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai's pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Illustrations
12 colour plates, 69 halftones, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-226-80165-0 (9780226801650)
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Person
Ming Tiampo is associate professor of art history at Carleton University in Ottawa and curator of the American International Association of Art Critics - award-winning Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1965 and Under Each Other's Spell: Gutai and New York.