Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde
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2020
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193 pp., 85 illustrations, mostly in color
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42465-4 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42465-4 (ISBN)
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Japanese calligraphy had its international heyday—collaborating with and yet challenging abstract painting—in the early postwar years. This book explores a Kyoto-based calligraphy group Bokujinkai, and its contribution to the Japanese, American, and European postwar avant-gardes.
The Bokujinkai—or ‘People of the Ink’—was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To this end, the Bokujinkai collaborated with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. The first English-language book to focus on the postwar history of Japanese calligraphy, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde explains how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives.
The Bokujinkai—or ‘People of the Ink’—was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To this end, the Bokujinkai collaborated with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. The first English-language book to focus on the postwar history of Japanese calligraphy, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde explains how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives.
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer specializes in modern Japanese art. After earning her Ph.D. from Heidelberg University, she held a postdoctoral position at the Smithsonian Freer | Sackler Galleries before joining the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2020 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Japanese Visual Culture ; 19 |
| Zusatzinfo | 85 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 249 mm |
| Gewicht | 740 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-42465-2 / 9004424652 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-42465-4 / 9789004424654 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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