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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Imagination Without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility Volume 69

Imagination Without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility Volume 69

Hein, Laura
Jennison, Rebecca

Paperback

Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 1929280637
ISBN13: 9781929280636
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: Jan 8 2010
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent and ambivalent actions of the government, they are widely seen as resistant to accepting responsibility for their nation's violent actions against others during the decades of colonialism and war. Yet some individuals, such as Tomiyama, have produced nuanced and reflective commentaries on those experiences, and on the difficulty of disentangling herself from the priorities of the nation despite her lifelong political dissent. Tomiyama's sophisticated visual commentary on Japan's history--and on the global history in which Asia is embedded--provides a compelling guide through the difficult terrain of modern historical remembrance, in a distinctively Japanese voice.

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