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Author: William Marotti
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.866kg
ISBN: 9780822349808
ISBN 10: 0822349809
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 27 March 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The annual Yomiuri Independant exhibition, the Hi Red Center group, and the 1000 Note Trial are surely among the most significant avant-garde initiatives anywhere in the world in the 1960s. This stunning study assesses the oppositional politics of these and other Japanese avant-garde undertakings by probing deep into the history of that which they opposed: the arrogation of power by the postwar Japanese State over everyday life. In Marotti's hard-hitting theoretical analysis and accessible prose, the seemingly nonsensical antics of avant-gardists become occasions for grasping fundamental truths about the political make-up of postwar Japanese society. --Bert Winther-Tamaki, author of Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1910-1955
Money, Trains, and Guillotines is the first extended study of art and activism in Japan during the 1960s, and as such it constitutes a major contribution not only to the history of Japanese art and politics but also to our knowledge of activism in the 1960s. - Thomas LaMarre, author of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation The annual Yomiuri Independant exhibition, the Hi Red Center group, and the 1000 Note Trial are surely among the most significant avant-garde initiatives anywhere in the world in the 1960s. This stunning study assesses the oppositional politics of these and other Japanese avant-garde undertakings by probing deep into the history of that which they opposed: the arrogation of power by the postwar Japanese state over everyday life. In William Marotti's hard-hitting theoretical analysis and accessible prose, the seemingly nonsensical antics of avant-gardists become occasions for grasping fundamental truths about the political makeup of postwar Japanese society. - Bert Winther-Tamaki, author of Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912-1955 Money, Trains, and Guillotines is the first extended study of art and activism in 1960s Japan, and as such it constitutes a major contribution, not only to the history of Japanese art and politics but also to our knowledge of 1960s activism. - Thomas LaMarre, author of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation
Money, Trains, and Guillotines is the first extended study of art and activism in 1960s Japan, and as such it constitutes a major contribution, not only to the history of Japanese art and politics but also to our knowledge of 1960s activism. --Thomas LaMarre, author of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation .
Author Information
William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
