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Tokyo as avant-garde hub<br />
of the postwar era<br />
18 artBooK | D.a.p. 1.800.338.2665<br />
Tokyo 1955–1970<br />
A New Avant-Garde<br />
The MuseuM of Modern ArT, new York<br />
edited by doryun Chong. Text by doryun Chong,<br />
Michio hayashi, Miryam sas, Mika Yoshitake.<br />
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary<br />
convergence of artists and other creators<br />
in Japan’s capital city during the radically transformative<br />
postwar period. examining works from a range of<br />
media—painting, sculpture, photography, drawing,<br />
printmaking, video and film, as well as graphic design,<br />
architecture, musical composition and dance—<br />
this is the first publication in english to focus in<br />
depth on the full scope of postwar art in Japan. During<br />
this period, tokyo was a vibrant hub that attracted<br />
such critical artistic figures as taro okamoto, Hiroshi<br />
nakamura, ay-o, Yoko ono, mieko Shiomi and tetsumi<br />
Kudo; photographers Daido moriyama, eikoh<br />
Hosoe and Shomei tomatsu; illustrators and graphic<br />
designers tadanori Yokoo, Kohei Sugiura and Kiyoshi<br />
awazu; and architects arata Isozaki and Kisho<br />
Kurokawa; as well as many important artists’ collectives.<br />
Curator Doryun Chong’s essay investigates<br />
tokyo’s sociopolitical context and the massive urban<br />
changes that set the stage for the city to emerge as a<br />
vital node in the international avant-garde network.<br />
essays by scholars Hayashi michio and miryam Sas<br />
and curator mika Yoshitake discuss critical concepts<br />
in art and culture at this time, including “graphism,”<br />
which manifested itself across various mediums; the<br />
development of new sculptural languages; and the<br />
“intermedia” tendency that engendered provocative<br />
cross-pollination among artistic genres. masatoshi<br />
nakajima provides an illustrated chronology and Yuri<br />
mitsuda supplies artist biographies. Tokyo 1955–1970:<br />
A New Avant-Garde brings fresh insight to this dynamic<br />
metropolis during a time of remarkable artistic<br />
burgeoning.<br />
978-0-87070-834-3<br />
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 264 pgs / 215 color.<br />
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00<br />
november/art/asian art & Culture<br />
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe<br />
new York: the museum of modern art,<br />
11/18/12–02/25/13<br />
Labyrinth: Daido Moriyama<br />
APerTure<br />
Text by daido Moriyama.<br />
throughout his career, Daido moriyama has sought new ways of recasting his images through the use of different printing techniques,<br />
installation, or by re-editing and re-formatting them. For this volume, moriyama has returned to his contact sheets from<br />
the past five decades, selecting both classic and previously unpublished images. Included here are reproductions of original<br />
contact sheets; sequences of new contact sheets made from recombined negative strips that juxtapose images from the 1950s<br />
with those from the past ten years; and selections of individual images, both familiar and newly discovered. together, they offer<br />
a comprehensive assembly of moriyama’s oeuvre, tracing recurring motifs and proposing startling new interpretations of some<br />
of his most iconic photographs. In opening up this private process of reexamination to a wider public, moriyama continues to<br />
challenge the viewer, his own practice and the larger mechanisms by which photography makes meaning.<br />
Daido Moriyama (born 1938) has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the late 1960s, with a bibliography of<br />
more than 300 monographs to his name. a major retrospective, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, originated in 2000 at the San Francisco<br />
museum of modern art, and subsequently toured internationally to the metropolitan museum of art and Japan Society in<br />
new York, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of the Cultural award of the<br />
Deutsche gesellschaft für photographie and the 2012 Infinity award for Lifetime achievement. exhibitions include a major retrospective,<br />
On the Road, presented at the osaka national museum of art from June to october 2011, and William Klein/Daido<br />
Moriyama at tate modern from october 2012 to January 2013.<br />
978-1-59711-217-8<br />
pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / 300 duotone.<br />
U.S. $80.00 CDn $80.00<br />
october/photography/asian art & Culture<br />
Classic and<br />
unknown<br />
Moriyama<br />
images,<br />
reconceived<br />
by the<br />
photographer<br />
himself<br />
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