Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (BLUM & POE) - Hardcover

Yoshitake, Mika; Jack, James; Dotan, Oshrat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966350324 ISBN 13: 9780966350326

Publisher: Blum & Poe, 2012

Synopsis

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha is the most comprehensive study in English to date on the postwar Japanese movement Mono-ha (School of Things), and examines the group’s practice in Tokyo between 1968–1972 at the height of the nation’s political upheaval against the US–Japan Security Treaty, anti-Vietnam War protests and its oil crisis. The Mono-ha artists--who included Noburu Sekine, Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga and Koji Enokura--all distinguished themselves through an aesthetic detachment that, instead of “creating” things, strove instead to “rearrange” them into artworks that interacted with the spaces around them. While sharing certain traits with the Land Art and Minimalism movements that were taking place in the United States, and the Arte Povera movement in Italy, Mono-ha was ultimately a rejection of the Euro-American avant-garde and is now synonymous with the beginnings of contemporary art in Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blum & Poe
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0966350324
• ISBN 13: 9780966350326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200