Showing Gutai: Splendid Playground by Alexandra Munroe

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-04-02 Pages: 316 Language: English Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Published in conjunction with the first United States museum retrospective ever devoted to Gutai. exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Gutai: Splendid Playground surveys the influential collective and artistic movement. This exhibition catalogue aims to demonstrate the range of bold and innovative creativity present in the avant-garde movement. to examine the aesthetic strategies in the cultural. social. and political context of postwar Japan and the West . and to further establish Gutai in an expanded. transnational history and critical discourse of modern art. Organized thematically and chronologically to explore Gutais unique approach to materials. process and performativity. this publication investigates the groups radical experimentation across a range of medi...