Research Catalog

Title

Between action and the unknown : the art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga / edited by Gabriel Ritter; with contributions by Kawasaki Koichi, Namiko Kunimoto, Nakajima Izumi, Gabriel Ritter, Sawayama Ryo.

Publication

[Dallas] : Dallas Museum of Art, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Ritter, Gabriel
• Kawasaki, Kōichi
• Kawasaki, Kōichi
• Dallas Museum of Art, issuing body.
• Dallas Museum of Art.

Description

160 pages; 28 cm

Summary

This comprehensive book is the first in English to examine two of the most successful and important postwar Japanese artists, Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) and Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011). During an 18-year engagement with the Gutai Art Association, both artists experimented with unorthodox techniques, such as Motonaga's use of smoke and water, or Shiraga's method of painting with his feet. Relatively little, however, is known in the West about Shiraga and Motonaga beyond their involvement with Gutai. Essays aim to assert the importance of Shiraga's and Motonaga's post-Gutai careers-when they pursued exciting new styles and themes in their work-as well as to evaluate the legacy of Japan's postwar avant-garde. Never-before-translated interviews with the artists, incisive essays by experts in the field, and a beautiful color plate section featuring many works never before seen outside of Japan complete this impressive catalogue.0Exhibition: Dallas Museum of Arts, Dallas, USA (08.02-19.07.2015).

Subject

• Shiraga, Kazuo, 1924-2008 > Exhibitions
• Motonaga, Sadamasa > Exhibitions
• Motonaga, Sadamasa
• Shiraga, Kazuo, 1924-2008
• Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai > Exhibitions
• Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai
• Arts > Japan > Experimental methods > Exhibitions
• Arts > Japan > Exhibitions
• Arts > Experimental methods
• Japan

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "The exhibition Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga was co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Japan Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Out of Gutai : Shiraga Kazuo and Motonaga Sadamasa / Kawasaki Koichi -- Between Action and the Unknown / Gabriel Ritter -- The Buddhist Hero / Namiko Kunimoto -- Painting's Inner Structure : Container and Contents in the Work of Motonaga Sadamasa / Sawayama Ryo -- Interview with Shiraga Kazuo / Osaki Shinichiro and Yamamura Tokutaro -- Interview with Motonaga Sadamasa / Osaki Shinichiro and Yamamura Tokutaro -- Narrative Chronology : Shiraga Kazuo / Nakajima Izumi -- Narrative Chronology : Motonaga Sadamasa / Nakajima Izumi.

ISBN

• 9780300211696
• 0300211694

LCCN

^^2014027341

OCLC

884439998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library