Gutai Art Association
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.
Exhibitions and catalogues
- 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.
