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    Radicalism in the wilderness : international contemporaneity and 1960s art in Japan / Reiko Tomii.

    • Title:Radicalism in the wilderness : international contemporaneity and 1960s art in Japan / Reiko Tomii.
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    • Author/Creator:Tomii, Reiko, author.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]
      ©2016
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Japanese--20th century.
      Contemporary, The, in art.
      Conceptual art--Japan--20th century.
      Art, Japanese--History--20th century.
    • Description:xviii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780262034128 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
      0262034123 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Three in the wilderness
      1964, Shimo Suwa: Matsuzawa Yutaka
      1968, Shionomisaki: The Play
      1970, Niigata: GUN
      Where was the Wilderness?
      Linking Local and Global
      1. Introduction to "International Contemporaneity" and "Contemporary Art"
      Proposal for Methodology: "International Contemporaneity" and Beyond
      Brief Note on "International Contemporaneity"
      "Contemporaneity" as a Geohistorical Concept
      Comparing "Similar yet Dissimilar": "Connections" and "Resonances"
      Exploding the Narrative: Contemporaneity and "Narrative Tangents"
      Overview of History: The Rise of "Contemporary Art"
      Expanded 1960s of Japanese Art
      Mainstreaming of the Avant-Garde: Another Post-Yomiuri Story
      Discursive Origins of International Contemporaneity in 1960s Japan
      2. Matsuzawa Yutaka's Wilderness of Nil
      Making of Mr. Psi: Toward Conceptualism
      Transdisciplinary Mind: From Shimo Suwa to New York and Back
      Theory and Practice of Psi: Before "Revelation"
      Nascent Conceptualism: Apparatus, Operation Manual, Container
      Matsuzawa's Radical Reconstruction of Art
      Legend (De)constructed: The Beginning of "Art of Kannen"
      Vanishing Acts as "Anti-Civilization"
      White Circle: An Exercise in Non-Sensory Painting
      3. Play's Collective Voyages into the Wilderness
      Prehistories in the Post-Yomiuri Years
      Independent Art Festival in Gifu
      Ikemizu Keiichi Was Homo Sapiens
      Early Years: A Gathering of Happeners
      Into the Wilderness
      Launching Voyage
      Play's Collectivism
      Destinations in Nature Near and Far
      4. Gun's Aspirations from the Wilderness
      Tokyo as A Distant Center: Gun's Early Years
      Wilderness Potential: Closing the Distance and Engaging the Social
      Stones of the Shinano River: Horikawa Michio's Mail Art
      Snow in Niigata: GUN's Land Art
      Anti-Military Soldier in Sado: GUN's Political Turns
      5. Connection Studies
      Following Narrative Tangents
      Tokyo Biennale 1970 as a Contact Point
      Matsuzwa Yutaka's Communal Internationalism
      Language Matters
      Play's Happenings Discourse
      Gainen (Concept) versus Kannen (Idea)
      6. Resonance Studies
      Matsuzawa Yutaka's Conceptualism Compared
      In a Spectrum of Immateriality
      Japanese Pioneers: Matsuzawa Yutaka, Yoko Ono, and On Kawara
      Land Art: Digging into the Local
      "Culture of Showing" and Photography
      Together in Nature Nearby
      EPILOGUE
      Three in the World
      2008, Norwich: Horikawa Michio
      2009, New York: Matsuzawa Yutaka
      2012, Paris: The Play
      Regrouping in an Open Field
      APPENDIX: SELECT TRANSLATION OF MATSUZAWA YUTAKA'S WORKS
      On Another Work in Another Container, or on Cutting (1963)
      Brief Report on the Discovery of the Beginning of Non-Sensory Painting (1964)
      Psi Corpse (1964)
      Void: Collective Participation of "Anti-Civilization" School (1965).
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