From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan, 1945–1989, Primary Documents - Paperback

Edited by Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Kenji Kajiya, and Fumihiko Sumitomo   From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–1989: Primary Documents offers a panoramic look at more than four decades of Japanese art, both as it unfolded and from the perspective of the present day. The anthology brings together artist's manifestos, critical writings, and other key primary documents from the postwar period (many of them translated into English for the first time) that discuss a range of artistic mediums—including photography, film, performance, architecture, and design—as well as their various points of convergence. Interspersed throughout the volume are newly commissioned texts by contemporary scholars that contextualize and supplement the primary materials. The collection is organized chronologically and thematically to highlight individual works, artists' groups, movements, and publications, such as the pioneering collectives Gutai and Hi Red Center, the influential photography periodi