Visual Counterculture in Japan

Political Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance

Marco Bohr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
9781350203297 (ISBN)

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This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic approach, this interdisciplinary text deconstructs the role that visual practices played in shaping a variety of countercultural discourses related to politics, gender, identity, sexuality, censorship, ethics and disasters. The book makes the case that visual practices do not merely function as a way to record counterculture, but that such practices are in themselves contributing to dynamics of resistance.

By considering a wide range of artists, photographers, film makers and practitioners, the book focuses on the way that visual culture transgresses, subverts or in the very least questions assumed socio-cultural boundaries in Japan. In doing so, the book foregrounds the crucial role that images play in our society today. Images are no just depictions of political shifts as and when they do occur, but they form part of this very shift in their own right. The book also highlights the interconnectedness between various visual practices and how they fit into wider geopolitical considerations on a global scale.

Marco Bohr is Associate Professor in Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. Marco is the editor of Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the co-editor of The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self (2018).

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Looking at Visual Culture and Counterculture in Japan
2. Protest and Visual Culture: a Radical New Vision Emerging in the 1960s
4. On the Fringes of the Nation State: Visual Counterculture and Okinawa
5. Testing the Boundaries: Obscenity, Censorship and Visual Counterculture
6. Youth Cultures, Subcultures and the Rise of New Visual Practices in the 1990s
7. Performing, Deconstructing and Subverting Cuteness in Visual Culture
8. Questioning the Narrative: Visual Practices and the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	32 colour & 68 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 236 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781350203297 / 9781350203297
Zustand	Neuware