LEADER 03990nam 2200529 450 001 9910809361403321 005 20230126220212.0 010 $a1-5017-1506-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501715068 035 $a(CKB)4100000007002583 035 $a(OCoLC)1031040505 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5541087 035 $a(DE-B1597)503442 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501715068 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5541087 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007002583 100 $a20181105d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArt and engagement in early postwar Japan /$fJustin Jesty 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource.) 311 $a1-5017-1505-4 311 $a1-5017-1504-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aParticipatory culture and democratic culture -- Art and engagement -- The tales of the tale of Akebono Village -- The social work of documentary and reportage art as movement -- Avant-garde realism -- Katsuragawa Hiroshi, Ikeda Tatsuo, and Nakamura Hiroshi -- Touching down at the So?bi seminar -- So?bi as organization and movement -- So?bi's philosophy and pedagogy -- Hani Susumu and the creativity of the camera -- The grand meeting of heroes -- Kyushu-ha : between three worlds -- Kyushu-ha's art -- A cruel story of anti-art -- Epilogue : hope in the past and the future. 330 $aJustin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945. This fascinating cultural history addresses our broad understanding of the immediate postwar era moving toward the Cold War and subsequent consolidations of political and cultural life. At the same time, Jesty delves into an examination of the relationship between art and politics that approaches art as a mode of intervention, but he moves beyond the idea that the artwork or artist unilaterally authors political significance to trace how creations and expressive acts may (or may not) actually engage the terms of shared meaning and value.Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan centers on a group of social realists on the radical left who hoped to wed their art with anti-capitalist and anti-war activism, a liberal art education movement whose focus on the child inspired innovation in documentary film, and a regional avant-garde group split between ambition and local loyalty. In each case, Jesty examines writings and artworks, together with the social movements they were a part of, to demonstrate how art-or more broadly, creative expression-became a medium for collectivity and social engagement. He reveals a shared if varied aspiration to create a culture founded in amateur-professional interaction, expanded access to the tools of public authorship, and dispersed and participatory cultural forms that intersected easily with progressive movements. Highlighting the transformational nature of the early postwar, Jesty deftly contrasts it with the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s. 606 $aArt$xPolitical aspects$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArt and social action$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArt, Japanese$y20th century 610 $arelationship between art and politics in Japan, participatory cultural forms, Cold War, social realists on the radical left, liberal art education movement. 615 0$aArt$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aArt and social action$xHistory 615 0$aArt, Japanese 676 $a701/.03 700 $aJesty$b Justin$f1974-$01674539 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809361403321 996 $aArt and engagement in early postwar Japan$94039446 997 $aUNINA