Bokujinkai : : Japanese calligraphy and the postwar avant-garde / / Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer.
The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international promin...
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| Superior document: | Japanese Visual Culture ; 19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Japanese Visual Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Postwar Japan and calligraphy
- From Keiseikai to Bokujinkai : calligraphy's avant-garde in the 1950s
- Morita's rainbow : line and space between calligraphy and abstract painting
- Primitivism as conceptal common past
- Zen metaphysics, calligraphy, and abstraction
- From rainbow to confetti : the 1960s and beyond.