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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Japan: The New Art
  name:
    name part: Michael Blackwood Productions (Firm),$4dst
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Asian Studies.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: "There is no longer Japanese art, only Japanese artists. In the 1950s one could find Japanese qualities in the work of our abstract painters, but with Pop Art young artists felt liberated from the past and in the reality of the actual world. I am interested in the new generation of artists.". Filmed with ten artists and selected five for "JAPAN The New Art".. One was the Gutai group. It was one of the most important art movements and artist groups in postwar Japan. The Gutai, which means ‘concreteness’, was founded by Jiro Yoshihara, in Ashiya City in 1954. Yoshihara promoted a bold and spirited anti-academicism by encouraging Gutai members to “create what has never existed before.” In his manifesto of Gutai art, he has written: “Gutai Art does not alter the material. Gutai Art gives life to the material. Gutai Art does not distort the material. In Gutai Art, the human spirit and the material shake hands but keep being in conflict with each other. The material never assimilates itself into the spirit. The spirit never subordinates the material. When the material exposes its characteristics remaining intact, it starts telling a story and even screaming out. To make the fullest use of the material is to make use of the spirit. To enhance the spirit is to lead the material to the high sphere of the spirit.”. Jiro Takamatsu, a conceptual artist, has also hugely influenced Japanese contemporary art after the 1960s. Takamatsu proclaimed himself “anti-artist”, and engaged in wide-range art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation and happening-performance. Takamatsu explored the conceptual gap between perception and existence.. In the late 60s a new art movement emerged, “Mono-ha” (‘object school’). Rejecting the ‘Anti-art’ attitudes of the Gutai and other avant-garde movements in Japan, Mono-ha artists tried to create a new Japanese art by shutting out all illusion from the means of artistic expression and returning to objects per se. Mono-ha a…
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Film
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1976.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English
  subject:
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Documentary-style films
  subject:
    topic: Asian Studies
  identifier: 1184835 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160825
    record change date: 20260324181331.8
    record identifier: in00003751555
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng