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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan

Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan

Adriasola Muñoz, Ignacio A.

Hardcover

Series: Refiguring Modernism

Art HistoryConceptual ArtJapanese Art

ISBN10: 0271092904
ISBN13: 9780271092904
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 3 2023
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.71
Height: 0.79 Width: 7.17 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This groundbreaking bookexamines how the notion of the object was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, economic, and environmental change.

Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-garde, Japanese artists and intellectuals of the 1960s formulated an aesthetics of disaffection through which they sought to address the stalemate of political and aesthetic representation. Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz draws from psychoanalytic theories of melancholia to examine the implications of such an approach, tracing a genealogy of disaffection within modernist discourse. By examining the discursive practices of artists working across a wide range of media, and through a close analysis of artwork, philosophical debates, artist theories, and critical accounts, Adriasola Muñoz shows how negativity became an efficacious means of addressing politics as a source for the creative act of undoing.

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