Research Catalog

Title

The imperial body / Fiona Amundsen.

Author

Amundsen, Fiona

Publication

Auckland : Split/Fountain Publishing, 2015.

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Details

Description

88 pages : illustrations (some colour); 30 cm

Summary

• "The Imperial Body brings together three interrelated series: Operation Magic (2012), Most Honourable Son (2013) and See You at Yasukuni (2014). Each series focuses, respectively, on the sites of the 1941 Japanese initiated Pearl Harbour attack; the plight of Ben Kuroki, the only American of Japanese descent permitted to fight in aerial combat in the Asia Pacific theatre of WWII, and the Tokyo based Yasukuni Shrine, which is dedicated to those who died whilst serving the Emperor. Utilising photography and moving-image these artworks explore how images are able to fracture paradigmatic socio-cultural histories and narratives associated with how the Asia Pacific Theatre is officially memorialized and narrated across parts of Asia and the Pacific: the focus concerns what sits outside of known official narratives and memorialisation."--Provided by artist.
• Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine is a complex phenomenon within a local and international sociocultural psyche. It presents an almost contradictory position around the role that memorial, memory, honour, and site have in relationship to the trauma and death embedded within layered military histories and experiences of World War II. Fiona Amundsen?s visual arts project takes the shrine as its focus, presenting a series of present-day photographs with fragments of historical images and documents representing worship and nationalism associated with WWII. In this way, she critically explores the complexities of archives linking to traumatic and nationalist histories.

Subject

• Kuroki, Ben, 1917-2015
• Yasukuni Jinja (Tokyo, Japan)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Art and the war > Exhibitions
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans
• Artists' books
• United States > Armed Forces > Japanese Americans

Genre/Form

Artists' books – New Zealand – 21st century.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• See you at Yasukuni -- Strangeface: A sovereign countenance / Cassandra Barnett -- Most honourable son -- Operation magic -- Memories of the invisible / Tim Corballis -- Spirit photograph / Tim Corballis and Fiona Amundsen -- See you at Yasukuni: A reflection / Fiona Amundsen.
• See you at Yasukuni -- Strangeface : a sovereign countenance -- Most honourable son -- Operation magic -- Memories of the invisible -- Sprit photograph -- See you at Yasukuni : a reflection.

Call Number

MEMZ+ (Amundsen) 17-2520

ISBN

• 9780473325756
• 0473325756

OCLC

992174735

Author

Amundsen, Fiona, artist.

Title

The imperial body / Fiona Amundsen.

Publisher

Auckland : Split/Fountain Publishing, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Research Call Number

MEMZ+ (Amundsen) 17-2520