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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784922603321

Titolo

Consuming bodies [[electronic resource] ] : sex and contemporary Japanese art / / edited by Fran Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 2002

ISBN

1-282-79620-8

9786612796203

1-86189-785-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LloydFran

Disciplina

709.510904

Soggetti

Art, Japanese - 20th century

Art, Japanese - 21st century

Sex in art

Consumption (Economics) in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Consuming Bodies Cover; Imprint page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Critical Reflections; 1: Sex and Consumerism in Edo Japan; 2: Sex and Consumerism: the Japanese State of the Arts; 3: Strategic Interventions in Contemporary Japanese Art; 4: 'Made in Occupied Japan' - Performance; 5: Post-identity Kawaii: Commerce, Gender and Contemporary Japanese Art; 6: The Place of Marginal Positionality: Legacies of Japanese Anti-Modernity; 7: Tokyo's Urban and Sexual Transformations: Performance Art and Digital Cultures; Afterword: Japanese Pop Culture and the Eradication of History

BuBu's DiaryReferences; Glossary of Japanese Terms; Bibliography; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Consuming Bodies explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art and how they connect with the wider historical, social and political conditions in Japanese culture. Essays by writers, historians, curators and artists, plus diary e