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June 27, 2007
Midori Yoshimoto Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 76 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0813535212)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.54

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In the context of today’s increasingly global art world, Midori Yoshimoto’s excellent and timely study, Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, fills a lacuna in the history of Japanese art in the West as well as in the history of the avant-garde more generally. Into Performance offers fascinating insight into the period between the Zen appropriations of Western artists in the 1950s and the identity art that reigned in the 1980s and 1990s,...