Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781788314053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Jelena Stojkovic

Opis

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan produced a versatile body of Surrealist work.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: ‘NEW’ PHOTOGRAPHY (shinko shashin) 1. Emergence2. Photo-Collages Part II: ‘AVANT-GARDE’ PHOTOGRAPHY (zen’ei shashin) 3. Images without Texts 4. Coded Revolution Part III: ‘PLASTIC’ PHOTOGRAPHY (zokei shashin) 5. Materiality 6. Locality Conclusion

O autorze

Jelena Stojković, PhD is an art historian and writer based in London. She is Lecturer in History and Theory of Photography at the Arts University Bournemouth. □