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Radicalism in the wilderness: international contemporaneity and 1960s art in Japan
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The MIT Press
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[2016]
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English
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Machine generated contents note: Three in the wilderness
1964, Shimo Suwa: Matsuzawa Yutaka
1968, Shionomisaki: The play
1970, Niigata: GUN
Where was the wilderness?
Linking local and global
1. Introduction to "International Contemporaneity" and "Contemporary Art"
Proposal for methodology: "International Contemporaneity" and beyond
Brief note on "International Contemporaneity"
"Contemporaneity" as a geohistorical concept
Comparing "Similar yet Dissimilar": "Connections" and "Resonances"
Exploding the narrative: Contemporaneity and "Narrative Tangents"
Overview of history: The rise of "Contemporary Art"
Expanded 1960s of Japanese art
Mainstreaming of the avant-garde: Another post-Yomiuri story
Discursive Origins of International contemporaneity in 1960s Japan
2. Matsuzawa Yutaka's wilderness of Nil
Making of Mr. Psi: Toward conceptualism
Transdisciplinary mind: From Shimo Suwa to New York and back
Theory and practice of psi: before "Revelation"
Nascent conceptualism: Apparatus, Operation manual, container
Matsuzawa's radical reconstruction of art
Legend (De)constructed: The beginning of "Art of Kannen"
Vanishing acts as "Anti-civilization"
White circle: An exercise in non-sensory painting
3. Play's collective voyages into the wilderness
Prehistories in the post-Yomiuri years
Independent art festival in Gifu
Ikemizu Keiichi was homo sapiens
Early years: A gathering of happeners
Into the wilderness
Launching voyage
Play's collectivism
Destinations in nature near and far
4. GUN's aspirations from the wilderness
Tokyo as a distant center: GUN's early years
Wilderness potential: closing the distance and engaging the social
Stones of the Shinano River: Horikawa Michio's mail art
Snow in Niigata: GUN's land art
Anti-military soldier in Sado: GUN's political Turns
5. connection studies
Following narrative Tangents
Tokyo biennale 1970 as a contact point
Matsuzwa Yutaka's communal Internationalism
Language matters
Play's happenings discourse
Gainen (Concept) versus Kannen (Idea)
6. Resonance studies
Matsuzawa Yutaka's conceptualism compared
In a spectrum of Immateriality
Japanese pioneers: Matsuzawa Yutaka, Yoko Ono, and On Kawara
Land art: digging into the local
"Culture of showing" and photography
Together in nature nearby
EPILOGUE
Three in the world
2008, Norwich: Horikawa Michio
2009, New York: Matsuzawa Yutaka
2012, Paris: The play
Regrouping in an Open field
APPENDIX: SELECT TRANSLATION OF MATSUZAWA YUTAKA'S WORKS
On another work in another container, or on cutting (1963)
Brief report on the discovery of the beginning of non-sensory painting (1964)
psi Corpse (1964)
Void: Collective participation of "Anti-Civilization" School (1965).
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9780262034128
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