In the Shadow of Empire

Art in Occupied Japan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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A pioneering look at an immensely creative period in Japanese art that developed amid the Cold War. Alicia Volk brings to light a significant body of postwar Japanese art, exploring how it accommodated and resisted the workings of the American empire during the early Cold War. Volk’s groundbreaking account presents the points of view of Japanese artists and their audiences under American occupation and amid the ruins of war. Each chapter reveals how artists embraced new roles for art in the public sphere—at times by enacting radical critiques of established institutions, values, and practices—and situates a range of compelling art objects in their intersecting artistic and political worlds. Centering on the diverse and divisive terrain of Japanese art between 1945 and 1952, In the Shadow of Empire creates a fluid map of relationality that brings multiple Cold War spheres into dialogue, stretching beyond US-occupied Japan to art from China, Europe, the Soviet Union, and the United States, and demonstrates the rich potential of this transnational site of artmaking for rethinking the history of Japanese and global postwar art.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-28
Mått:178 x 254 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 647 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226837901

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Mer om författaren

Alicia Volk is professor of Japanese art at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement and In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art, a recipient of the Phillips Book Prize. She has been a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, an Ishibashi Foundation-Japan Foundation Fellow, a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the University of London, and a Fulbright Research Scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo.

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"For those whose exposure to Japanese art is primarily to works of premodern Japan—temple bells, ukiyoe prints and such—the book should be a revelation. . . . Volk shows us that Japanese artists in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the 1950s produced works of art worthy of our consideration."

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceNotes to the ReaderIntroduction Terra Incognita: Art in the Ruins1 Democratizing Japanese Art: Autonomy, Authority, and the Art World2 Monument to Defeat in War: Out of the Ruins, a Bright Dawn3 Cold War Alignments: Modernism and Populism in Creative Prints and People’s Prints4 Listen to the Voices of the Sea: Memory and Monumentality in War and Peace, and War5 Art and Women’s Liberation: History Has Given Us Our First ChanceEpilogue The Limits of Peace and Freedom, and the Ends of Art under the Shadow of EmpireAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Major Artists and Art OrganizationsNotesBibliographyIndex