Fwd: Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan

Aaron Gerow aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Wed Jun 8 22:19:18 EDT 2011


Please note the publication of this important work on Japanese experimental art, including film.

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> Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of                                 Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return 
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> In the years of rapid economic growth following the protest movements of the 1960s, artists and intellectuals in Japan searched for a means of direct impact on the whirlwind of historical and                                       cultural transformations of their time. Yet while the artists often called for such “direct” encounter, their works complicate this ideal with practices of interruption, self-reflexive mimesis, and temporal discontinuity. In an era known for                                       idealism and activism, some of the most cherished ideals—intimacy between subjects, authenticity, a sense of home—are limitlessly desired yet always just out of reach. 
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> このたびハーバード大学アジアセンターから上梓い たしました本書は、1960年代から80年 代初頭にかけて、演劇・映画・ビデオ・舞踏・写真などメディアを横断するかたちで展開された日 本の実験芸術を論じています。日本の芸術家たちの複雑かつ洗 練された実践および理論に光をあてるとともに、現代の批判理論の重要論点をめぐる議論のなかに 日本の実験芸術を位置づけようとする試みです。
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> In this book, Miryam Sas explores the theoretical and cultural implications of experimental arts in a range of media. Casting light on important moments in the arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s, this study focuses first on underground (post-shingeki) theater and then on related works of experimental film and video, butō dance and photography. Emphasizing the complex and sophisticated theoretical grounding of these artists through their works, practices, and writings, this book also locates Japanese experimental arts in an extensive, sustained dialogue with key issues of contemporary critical theory.
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> Miryam Sas is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley.
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