Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, From Angura to Provoke

Featuring texts, interviews and over 600 illustrations.

Text by Yokoo Tadanori. Preface by Amélie Ravalec. Introduction by Alexandra Munroe. Editors: Marc Valli, Phoebe Colley. Cover design by Tristan de Lance. 

Japan experienced major shifts in its underground movements from the 1960s to the 1970s. An artistic boom propagated across a multitude of disciplines and fields as a result of the turbulent years of the postwar period. Young Japanese artists began emerging and inspiring one another. We can characterize this time as a period of experimentation and radicalization. This played a major role in shaping Japanese art as we know it today. 

The book is shaped around the works of: Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eiko, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shuji, Tenjo Sajiki, Kawada Kikuji, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-­Red Center, Hanaga Mitsutoshi, Nakahira Takuma, and Tanabe Santaro, to name a few of the artists featured in this book.