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Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke

Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke

$50.00 at The Getty Museum.

A captivating examination of the avant-garde art scene in Japan in the 1960s and '70s, and the revolutionary Japanese artists who made it a creative force both in the country and around the world. The 1960s in Japan were a time of profound social change, political unrest, and student protests. The turbulent years of the postwar era inspired an artistic explosion, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who pioneered many disciplines: experimental and erotic photography, "Angura"…