Bokujinkai : Japanese calligraphy and the postwar avant-garde / Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, author.

Series:

Japanese Visual Culture ; 19.

Japanese Visual Culture ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bokujinkai (Group of calligraphers).

Calligraphy, Japanese--20th century.

Calligraphy, Japanese.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2020.

Summary:

The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To this end, the Bokujinkai collaborated with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. The first English-language book to focus on the postwar history of Japanese calligraphy, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde explains how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives.

Contents:

Postwar Japan and calligraphy

From Keiseikai to Bokujinkai : calligraphy's avant-garde in the 1950s

Morita's rainbow : line and space between calligraphy and abstract painting

Primitivism as conceptal common past

Zen metaphysics, calligraphy, and abstraction

From rainbow to confetti : the 1960s and beyond.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-43706-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004437067 DOI