Japanese counterculture [electronic resource] : the antiestablishment art of Terayama Shoji / Steven C. Ridgely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridgely, Steven C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counterculture--Japan.

Counterculture.

Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Terayama, Shūji.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the meaning and importance of his wide-ranging, often playful body of work. Ridgely places Terayama at the center of Japanese and global counterculture and finds in his work a larger story about the history of postwar Japanese art and culture. He sees Terayama as reflecting the most significant event

Contents:

Introduction : global counterculture, visual counterculture

Poetic kleptomania and pseudo-lyricism

Radio drama in the age of television

Boxing/stuttering/graffiti

Deinstitutionalizing theater and film

The impossibility of history

Conclusion : "Japanese" counterculture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4680-9

0-8166-7528-7

OCLC:

701704803