TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jesty,Justin
TI  - Art and engagement in early postwar Japan /Justin Jesty
SN  - 9781501715068
AV  - N72 .A783 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Art
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art and social action
KW  - Art, Japanese
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Participatory culture and democratic culture --; Art and engagement --; The tales of the tale of Akebono Village --; The social work of documentary and reportage art as movement --; Avant-garde realism --; Katsuragawa Hiroshi, Ikeda Tatsuo, and Nakamura Hiroshi --; Touching down at the Sōbi seminar --; Sōbi as organization and movement --; Sōbi's philosophy and pedagogy --; Hani Susumu and the creativity of the camera --; The grand meeting of heroes --; Kyushu-ha : between three worlds --; Kyushu-ha's art --; A cruel story of anti-art --; Epilogue : hope in the past and the future; 2; b
N2  - "A cultural history of the relationship between art and politics in Japan, 1945-1960. Highlights the transformational nature of the early postwar period against the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s. Provides insight into the present by focusing on a period similarly characterized by decentralization and de-professionalization of culture and expansion of conceptions of what art is and who should be doing it"--
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