Research Catalog

Title

Consuming bodies : sex and contemporary Japanese art / edited by Fran Lloyd.

Publication

London : Reaktion, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lloyd, Fran

Description

224 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"In this book the analyses of the imagery of sex and consumerism move far beyond the gallery and into the public and private spaces of the city and the nation, worlds where the complex network of relationships powered by gender, class, race and commerce are directly encountered in both the fast-changing consumer market-place and the dominating ideologies within Japanese society. This is a society in which contemporary art, and indeed the artist, still have a somewhat precarious place, circumstances that have contributed to the frequently provocative and confrontational art made by Makoto Aida, Hiroshi Masuyama, Koji Tanada and other leading figures in contemporary art."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Art, Japanese > 20th century
• Art, Japanese > 21st century
• Sex in art
• Consumption (Economics) in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sex and consumerism in Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Sex and consumerism : the Japanese state of the arts / Nicholas Bornoff -- Strategic interventions in contemporary Japanese art / Fran Lloyd -- 'Made in occupied Japan' -- performance / BuBu and Yoshiko Shimada -- Post-identity Kawaii : commerce, gender and contemporary Japanese art / Yuko Hasegawa -- The place of marginal positionality : legacies of Japanese anti-modernity / Midori Matsui -- Tokyo's urban and sexual transformations : performance art and digital cultures / Stephen Barber -- Afterword : Japanese pop culture and the eradication of history / Yoshiko Shimada.

ISBN

1861891474

OCLC

• 50271138
• SCSB-12773940

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library