Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art

Namiko Kunimoto (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42158-5 (ISBN)

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Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art situates the Japanese Empire as a world-historical event that persists today through pervasive and deep impacts on regional and global politics. Considering contemporary artwork from across the transpacific region, Namiko Kunimoto documents efforts to expose colonial trauma and reveal its presence in shaping political liberalism in Japan as well as the global rise of aspirational fascism. At the heart of these artistic endeavors is a drive to animate, both in the sense of digitalization and performance and in the urge to enliven, mobilize, and reveal the continuities of imperialism today. The animate art addressed in this book urges us to think critically about imperialism and its links to the digital age, land, racism, and violence, thereby inviting us to reenvision our collective future.

Namiko Kunimoto is Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University. She is author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art.

Contents

Note on Translations and Names

Introduction
1. Shimada Yoshiko: Art, Gender, and Race in the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism
2. Give Me a Light: Militarism and Japan's Art Historical Present
3. Ho Tzu Nyen: Un/masking the Façades of Fascism
4. Redressive Acts: Japanese Canadian Art, Liberal Democracy, and Countering Anti-Asian Racism
Epilogue: Tiger Tales and Liberalism

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	41 scattered b-w images, 23 color plates in a gathered insert
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-42158-2 / 0520421582
ISBN-13	978-0-520-42158-5 / 9780520421585
Zustand	Neuware