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+ | [[Image:Yoshihara_Jiro_1956_Work_Colored_Chickens.jpg|thumb|258px|Jirō Yoshihara, ''Work (Colored Chickens)'', 1956.]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Tanaka Atsuko 1956 Electric Dress.jpg|thumb|258px|Atsuko Tanaka wearing ''Denkifuku'' [Electric Dress] (1956) at 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan, Tokyo, October 1956. [http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cxAAya8/rdLR8X8 Pompidou].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Murakami_Saburo_1956_Passage.jpg|thumb|258px|Saburō Murakami, ''Sakuhin (Tsuka)'' [Passage], 1956. Performance at 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, October 1956. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWctXXGeJMA 1994 video].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Gutai_Art_Association_1962_Gutai_Card_Box.jpg|thumb|258px|Gutai Art Association, ''Gutai Card Box'', 1962. Wood, aluminum, acrylic board, and buzzer, 182.9 × 91.4 × 91.4 cm. Courtesy Mukai Shūji. Installation view at ''11th Gutai Art Exhibition'', Takashimaya department store, Osaka, 17-22 April 1962.]] | ||
The '''Gutai Art Association''' (1954–72) was an avant-garde collective founded by artist, critic, and teacher [[Jirō Yoshihara]], along with [[Shōzō Shimamoto]], in the cosmopolitan town of Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan. | The '''Gutai Art Association''' (1954–72) was an avant-garde collective founded by artist, critic, and teacher [[Jirō Yoshihara]], along with [[Shōzō Shimamoto]], in the cosmopolitan town of Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan. | ||
− | == | + | ==Recent exhibitions== |
* [http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu120/artrip/en/gutai.html Gutai, permanent exhibition], Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka. | * [http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu120/artrip/en/gutai.html Gutai, permanent exhibition], Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka. | ||
* ''Gutaï: exposition'', Jeu de Paume, Paris, May-Jun 1999. | * ''Gutaï: exposition'', Jeu de Paume, Paris, May-Jun 1999. |
Revision as of 17:40, 2 March 2016
The Gutai Art Association (1954–72) was an avant-garde collective founded by artist, critic, and teacher Jirō Yoshihara, along with Shōzō Shimamoto, in the cosmopolitan town of Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan.
Recent exhibitions
- Gutai, permanent exhibition, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka.
- Gutaï: exposition, Jeu de Paume, Paris, May-Jun 1999.
- "Under Each Other's Spell": Gutai and New York, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Jul-Oct 2009; Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Oct-Dec 2009; UB Anderson Gallery, U Buffalo, Spring 2010. Catalogue.
- Gutai: Painting with Time and Space, LAC, Lugano, Oct 2010-Feb 2011.
- Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, National Art Center, Tokyo, Jul-Sep 2012. Review.
- A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th Street, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Sep-Oct 2012.
- Gutai: Splendid Playground, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Feb-May 2013. Catalogue, Munroe's essay. Review: Kunimoto (Art Journal).
Literature
See also catalogues above.
- Alexandra Munroe, "To Challenge the Midsummer Sun: The Gutai Group", in Scream Against the Sky: Japanese Art After 1945, ed. Munroe, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, pp 83-124.
- Joan Kee, "Situating a Singular Kind of 'Action'. Early Gutai Painting, 1954-1957", Oxford Art Journal 26:2 (2003), pp 123-140.
- Ming Tiampo, Gutai and Informel: Post-war Art in Japan and France, 1945-1965, Northwestern University, 2004, xxii+347 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Ming Tiampo, "Create What Has Never Been Done Before! Historicising Gutai Discourses of Originality", Third Text 21:6 (2007), pp 689-706.
- Ming Tiampo, Gutai: Decentering Modernism, University of Chicago Press, 2010. Introduction, [1].
- John Held, jr., "Why Gutai?", SFAQ 11, San Francisco, Nov 2012-Jan 2013, pp 92-107.
- Gutai in Tate Glossary
- Bibliography
- Annotated bibliography, compiled by John Held, jr., 2012.