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Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7704-3514
(2020)
Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde.
Brill, Leiden and Boston.
ISBN 978-90-04-42465-4
Abstract
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 calligraphy movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To realize this vision, the Bokujinkai established creative collaborations with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, and soon began sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. By focusing on this exceptional moment in the history of Japanese calligraphy, I show how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | japanese art,japanese art history,abstraction,calligraphy,postwar art,abstract expressionism,informel,transcultural studies,art history,visual culture,avant-garde,modernism |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2020 00:15 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2023 09:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74862 |
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