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Mia Kivel, Artists, Institutions, and Agitators in Midcentury Japan, Art History, Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 207–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/arthis/ulaf006
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Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan, by Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2023, 262 pp., 16 col. and 48 b. & w. illus., hardback, $104.95.
Anarchy of the Body: Undercurrents of Performance Art in 1960s Japan, by KuroDalaiJee, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023, 752 pp., 256 b. & w. illus., hardback, €55.
History of Japanese Art After 1945: Institutions, Discourse, Practice, by Kitazawa Noriaki, Kuresawa Takemi, and Mitsuda Yuri, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 408 pp., hardcover, €45.
While a robust corpus concerning modern and contemporary Japanese art exists in the form of journalistic writing, beginning largely with the incisive commentaries of Hariu Ichiro, Tono Yoshiaki, and Nakahara Yusuke, the so-called ‘Three Greats’ of post-1945 art criticism, truly academic exploration of this period has only developed over the last few decades.1 Indeed, one could make a compelling argument that the Japanese post-1945 period did not exist as a field of art historical research in North America until 1994, with Alexandra Munroe’s groundbreaking Guggenheim exhibition Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky and its corresponding catalogue.
