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Woodblock print (ukiyo-e)[edit]

Avant-garde[edit]

Groups
Artists and writers

Ryūsei Kishida (岸田 劉生) (1891−1929) [2], [3]; Jirō Yoshihara (吉原 治良), [4]; Tai Kanbara (神原 拓也); Tomoyoshi Murayama (村山知義); Masamu Yanase; Kamenosuke Ogata; Shuzo Oura; Shinro Kadowaki; Shuichiro Kinoshita; Osamu Shibuya; Iwane Sumiya; Tatsuo Okada (岡田竜夫); Kimimaro Yabashi; Tatsuo Toda; Masao Kato; Hideichirō Kinoshita; Ogata Kamenosuke (尾形亀之助), [5]; Yanase Masamu (柳瀬正夢) [6]; Shūzō Ōura (大浦周造); Michinao Takamizawa; Yamada Shinkichi (山田伸吉), dadaist; Hagiwara Kyōjirō (萩原恭次郎), writer [7]; Hayashi Fumiko, writer; Jun Tsuji (辻潤), dadaist, [8]; Yoshiyuki Eisuke (吉行 エイスケ), dadaist, [9]; Noboru Kitawaki.

Publications[edit]

Mavo
  • Mavo, 1923, [20] pp. Catalogue for the first Mavo exhibition, held at Denpōin Temple in Asakusa, 28 July-3 August 1923.
  • "Mavo Manifesto", Mavo, 1923, pp [1-2]; repr. in Nihon no Dada 1920-1970, ed. Yoshio Shirakawa, Tokyo: Hakuba Shobō and Kazenobara, 1988, pp 35-36.
  • Tomoyoshi Murayama, Ichimei ishikiteki kōsei shugi e no dōtei [現在の藝術と未來の藝術 一名、意識的構成主義への道程], 1924.
  • Mavo, eds. Tatsuo Okada and Tomoyoshi Murayama, 7 issues, July 1924-August 1925.
On art and the machine
  • Tomoyoshi Murayama, "Kikaiteki yōso no geijutsu he no dō'nyū" [The Introduction of Mechanical Elements into Art], Mizue 227 (January 1924).
  • Shin keitai bi danmen [Profile of the New Form of Beauty], Special Issue of Atorie 6:5 (May 1929).
    • Sadanosuke Nakada, [A Theory of the New Form of Beauty].
    • Tomoyoshi Murayama, "Saikin no geijutsu ni okeru kikaibi" [The Beauty of the Machine in Contemporary Art].
  • Takao Itagaki, Kikai to geijutsu to no kōryū [Interactions Between Art and the Machine], Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1929.
  • Kikai geijutsuron [機械藝術論; Theory of the Machine and Art], Tokyo: Tenninsha [天人社], 1930; repr. by Tokyo: Yumani Shobō, 1991. Articles by ten authors from different fields of art, each writing on the relationship between the machine and their particular genre. [10]
  • Toshimi Kimura (ed.), Kikai to geijutsu kakumei [The Machine and Artistic Revolution], Tokyo: Hakuyōsha, 1930; repr. in Kikai to geijutsu (Korekushon Modan Toshi Bunka 45) [Machine and Art (Modern Urban Culture Collection 45)], ed. Nobuhiko Baba, Tokyo: Yumani Shobō, 2009. Translations of articles by R.M. Fox, Edward J. O'Brien, and others, and two articles by Kimura. The book focuses on reviewing how the machine played crucial roles at the times when various new artistic styles emerged as well as on the relationship between the machine and capitalism or the proletariat.
  • Harue Koga, "Kikai to bijutsu" [The Machine and Art], Wakakusa (June 1931).
Artists' books
  • Hagiwara Kyōjirō, Shikei senkoku [Death Sentence], Tokyo: Chōryūsha, 1925, 161+6 pp. Illustrated by Mavo. Anthology of visual poetry. [11]
  • Ernst Toller, Tsubame no sho [The Swallow Book], trans. Tomoyoshi Murayama, Tokyo: Chōryūsha, 1925, 106 pp. Illustrated by Tatsuo Okada. [12]
  • Hideo Saito, Aozameta douteikyo [The Pale-Faced Virgin's Mad Thoughts], Tokyo: Chōryūsha, 1926, 120 pp. Illustrated by Tatsuo Okada. Anthology of visual poetry. [13] [14]
Other
  • Tai Kanbara, Miraiha kenkyū [未来派研究, Futurism Studies], Tokyo, 1925, 362 pp. Comprehensive work on Italian Futurism. [15]
  • Jun Tsuji, Furō mango [浮浪漫語], 1922.
  • Jun Tsuji, Desu pera [ですぺら], 1924.
  • Jun Tsuji, Zetsubō no sho [絶望の書; Book of Despair], 1930, 458 pp.
  • Hagiwara Kyōjirō, Danpen: Hagiwara Kyōjirō shishū [断片: 萩原恭次郎詩集], 1931, 71 pp.

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Anti-art, Non-art[edit]

  • Kyushu Group (Kyūshū-ha), Fukuoka City, late 1950s-early 1960s.

Exhibitions[edit]

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Visual art[edit]

Exhibitions
Literature
  • Thomas R.H. Havens, Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, 1955-1980, Princeton University Press, 1982.
  • Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Kenji Kajiya, Fumihiko Sumitomo (eds.), From Postwar To Postmodern, Art In Japan 1945-1989: Primary Documents, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012, 464 pp. [41]
Resources

Experimental music, Sound art[edit]

  • Miki Kaneda, "Experimental Music in Japan (A Short List)", Post at MoMA, 15 Feb 2013.
  • Katsushi Nakagawa, "History of Sound in the Arts in Japan Between the 1960s and 1990s", in Fractured Scenes: Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia, eds. Damien Charrieras and François Mouillot, Springer, 2021, pp 225-239. [42]

Film, video[edit]

Exhibitions
  • Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960-1986, MoMA, New York, 2012-2013. [43]
Publications

Theatre[edit]

Literature

Computer art[edit]

Onkyo[edit]

Media art[edit]

Events

Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo, since 1997), Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto (since c.2010), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (since 2009), CREAM: International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama (2009).

Literature
  • Minoru Hatanaka, et al., N_ext: New Generation of Media Artists, Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2004, 94 pp. Catalogue. [47] (Japanese)/(English)
  • Fumihiko Sumitomo, et al., Possible Futures: Japanese Postwar Art and Technology, Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2005, 126 pp. Catalogue. [48] (Japanese)/(English)
  • Fumihiko Sumitomo, et al., Deep Images: Why We Need Images to Live?, Tokyo: Film Art, 2009, 168 pp. Catalogue. [49] (Japanese)/(English)
  • Yvonne Spielmann, Hybridkultur, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010, 293 pp. Publisher. (German)
    • Hybrid Culture: Japanese Media Arts in Dialogue with the West, trans. Anja Welle and Stan Jones, MIT Press, 2012, 280 pp. Publisher.
  • Jung-Yeon Ma (マ・ジョンヨン), Nihon media āto-shi / A Critical History of Media Art in Japan [日本メディアアート史], Tokyo: Artes, 2014, ix+355 pp. Publisher. (Japanese)