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June 24, 2009
Charles Merewether and Rika Iezumi Hiro, eds. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950–1970 Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 152 pp.; 28 color ills.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892368662)

Exhibition schedule: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, March 6–June 3, 2007

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How did the concept of “Anti-Art” arise in the context of postwar Japan, and what problems did it address in the postwar art world? The postwar period in Japan was a time of intense debate and speculation; this included a search for terms describing new art practices that stepped outside established genres such as painting and sculpture. Artists brought artworks out of private spaces and into everyday places such as city streets, trains, and parks....