{"product_id":"radicalism-in-the-wilderness-international-contemporaneity-and-1960s-art-in-japan-9780262535311","title":"Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eInnovative artists in 1960s Japan who made art in the wildernessaway from Tokyo  outside traditional norms  and with little institutional supportwith global resonances. 1960s Japan was one of the worlds major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to  and sometimes antecedent to  their Western counterparts  they found themselves in a new reality of international contemporaneity (kokusaiteki djisei). In this book Reiko Tomii examines three key figures in Japanese art of the 1960s who made radical and inventive art in the wildernessaway from Tokyo  outside traditional norms  and with little institutional support. These practitioners are the conceptualist Matsuzawa Yutaka  known for the principle of vanishing of matter and the practice of meditative visualization (kannen); The Play  a collective of Happeners; and the local collective GUN (Group Ultra Niigata). The innovative work of these artists included a visionary exhibition in Central Japan of formless emissions organized by Matsuzwa; the launching of a huge fiberglass eggan image of liberationfrom the southernmost tip of Japans main island by The Play; and gorgeous color field abstractions painted by GUN on accumulating snow on the riverbeds of the Shinano River. Pioneers in conceptualism  performance art  land art  mail art  and political art  these artists delved into the local and achieved global relevance. Making connections and finding resonances between these three practitioners and artists elsewhere  Tomii links their local practices to the global narrative and illuminates the fundamentally similar yet dissimilar characteristics of their work. In her reading  Japan becomes a paradigmatic site of world art history  on the periphery but asserting its place through hard-won international contemporaneity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960534261813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262535319","price":71.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262535311.jpg?v=1788290090","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/radicalism-in-the-wilderness-international-contemporaneity-and-1960s-art-in-japan-9780262535311","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}