1. Zero Jigen's pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation -- 2. Butoh cine dance and the remediated sixties -- 3. Singing Yokoo Tadanori: Ichiyanagi Toshi, The City and the Aesthetics of Listening -- 4. Performing Revolution at Shinjuku Plaza -- 5. The Osaka Exposition: Bodies and the impossible Utopia -- 6. Memory and city: Port B and the Tokyo Olympics -- Closing: Transforming everydayness
Summary
Taking performance as a key word, this book explores important Japanese artists and art works in the 1960s in relation to the formation of postwar Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, Eckersall shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways. He includes case studies of rarely discussed artists and performances by Zero Jigen, Ichiyanagi Toshi, Iimura Takahiko and the contemporary group Port B, as well as dynamic cultural events such as the 1964 Olympic Games, mass protests and the 1970 Osaka Expo
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
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