Gutai
具体美術協会 / 1954–1972 / Style / Japanese Postwar Avant-garde
Acts directly on body, mud, paper, water, smoke and light bulbs — events where spirit does not rule material, and each exposes the other's nature.
Body colliding with material / Outdoor exhibitions / Tearing, throwing, treading / Participation and play
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't stage the violence of making as spectacle. Read postwar Japan, the autonomy of material, audience participation.
- Further study
- Yoshihara Jirō / Shiraga Kazuo / Tanaka Atsuko / Gutai Art Manifesto