Japanese avant-garde
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
- Japanese counterculture, Angura, Japanese New Wave, Tadao Ando, Garo (magazine), Atsuko Tanaka (artist)
- In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yohji Yamamoto was involved a relationship with fellow Japanese avant-garde fashion designer Rei Kawakubo
Visual art in the postwar period
In the 1950s and 1960s, Japan's artistic avant garde included the internationally influential Gutai group, which originated or anticipated various postwar genres such as performance art, installation art, conceptual art, and wearable art.
Post-war literature
Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote fantastic novels such as Woman in the Dunes (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. Yoshikichi Furui tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists.
See also