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Author Eckersall, Peter, author.

Title Performativity and event in 1960s Japan : city, body, memory / Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne, Australia
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents 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 Online resource; title from title details screen (Palgrave Connect, viewed October 1, 2013)
Subject Theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Performing arts -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Art & design styles: from c 1960 -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- Japan.
Performance art -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- Japan.
Theatre studies -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- Japan.
ART -- General.
Art and Design.
Art and society
Performing arts
Theater
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137017383
1137017384
1299952143
9781299952140