Gutai :

Tiampo, Ming.

Gutai : decentering modernism / Ming Tiampo. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011. - xiv, 231 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.

Decentering originality -- Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years -- Gutai strategies of originality -- Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy -- The interpoetics of distance -- Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock -- Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art -- Quantization: Gutai portables -- Lines of flight: the Gutai journal -- Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal -- American correspondences -- European correspondences -- The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions -- Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958 -- New York, 1958 -- Turin, 1959 -- International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions -- Osaka, 1962 -- Amsterdam, 1965 -- Paris, 1965 -- New directions in Gutai exhibitions -- 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965 -- Gutai art for the space age, 1967 -- Expo '70 -- Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies.

9780226801650 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226801667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226801659 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226801667 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Yoshihara, Jirō, 1905-1972.


Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai--History.


Conceptual art--Japan.
Performance art--Japan.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Japan--20th century.

N7355.5.G87 / T53 2011