Bokujinkai: Japanese calligraphy and the postwar avant-garde
The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers, Morita Shiryu, Inoue Yuichi, Eguchi Sogen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde calligraphy movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of internat...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Buch/Monographie Hochschulschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Japanese visual culture
volume 19 |
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Japanese visual culture (volume 19)
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| Verfasserangaben: | by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers, Morita Shiryu, Inoue Yuichi, Eguchi Sogen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde calligraphy movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To realize this vision, the Bokujinkai established creative collaborations with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, and soon began sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. By focusing on this exceptional moment in the history of Japanese calligraphy, I show how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-175) and index Dissertation ursprünglich eingereicht unter dem Titel: Calligraphy's avant-garde. The Bokujinkai group in postwar Japan and its international aspirations |
| ISBN: | 9004424652 9789004424654 |