Selected Bibliography: The Visual Culture of Postwar Japan

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I. The occupation and postwar culture

Broderick, Mark, ed. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and The Nulcear Image in Japanese Film. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1999.

-------. "Graphic Others/ Graphic Selves: Cartoons in War and Peace." In Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. New York: New Press, 1993.

Dower, John W. and Junkerman, John, Eds. The Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki. Harper and Row Publishers, Inc.: New York, NY. 1985.

Hirano, Kyoko. The Japanese Cinema under the Occupation. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Hoaglind, Linda. "Interview with Tomatsu Shomei." Positions. 5.3 (Winter 1997). 835-862.

Ivy, Marilyn. "Formations of Mass Culture." Postwar Japan as History. Andrew Gordon, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Gordon, Andrew, Ed. Postwar Japan as History. University of California Press, Ltd.: Oxford, England. 1993.

Gotô, Kazuhiku et al. A History of Japanese Television Drama: Modern Japan and the Japanese. Tokyo: The Japan Association of Broadcasting Art, 1991.

No More Hiroshima 8.6, No More Nagasaki 8.9. Chugoku Broadcasting Company, NBC Corporation. 16 January 2000. http://japan.park.org/Japan/Peace96/Sakuin-e.html

"Nuclear Arms and the Human Race: The Future of the Earth you Choose." NHK-TV. 16 January 2000. http://www.nhk.or.jp/nuclear/e/index.htm

Molasky, Michael S. The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Oe, Kenzaburo, and Haruo Umezaki, Tamiki Hara, Fumiko Hayashi. The Catch and Other War Stories (The Shadow of Sunrise). Saeki, Shoichi ed. Kodansha International Ltd: New York, 1981.

Pyle, Kenneth. The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1992.

Richie, Donald. "The Occupied Arts" from The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan during the Occupation, 1945-52. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 11-21.

Sarantakes, Nicholas. Website on Okinawa's Postwar History. 16 January 2000
http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/history/sarantakes/Okinawa.html

Tsurumi, Shunsuke. "Occupation: the American Way of Life as an Imposed Model" and "Legends of Common Culture." From A Cultural History of Postwar Japan 1945-1980. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1987. 1-12, 62-78.

Stephen Prince, "Willpower Can Cure All Human Ailments." From The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. 67-113.

Waswo, Ann. "Post-war Economy and its Consequences." Modern Japanese Society. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. 104-127

West, Philip; Levine, Steven I., and Hil, Jackie. America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

II. Yokoo Tadanori and the Japanese Counterculture

Bergmark, Johannes. "Butoh &endash; Revolt of the Flesh in Japan and a Surrealist Way to Move." Mannen pa Gatan: Stockholm, 1991. 16 January 2000.
http://www.flashback.net/~bergmark/butoh.html

Desser, David. Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to Japanese New Wave Cinema. Bloominton: Indiana UP, 1988.

Goodman, David. After apocalypse: four Japanese plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

-------. Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-garde. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.

-------. Concerned Theater Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theater: 1960 to 1980. CD rom. University of Illinois/Krannert Art Museum, 1998.

Holborn, Mark. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four: Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography. New York: Aperture, 1986.

Holborn, Mark et al, eds. Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soul. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1987.

Klein, Susan Blakely. Ankoku Butô: The Premodern and Postmodern Infulences on the Dance of Utter Darkness. Cornell, NY: Cornell East Asia Papers, 1988.

McDonald, Keiko Iwai. "The Yakuza Film: An Introduction." Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History Ed. by Aurthur Noletti and Davud Desser. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.

Monroe, Alexandra. "Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Indépendent Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s." Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 149-163.

-------. "Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional Art" from Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 189-201.

Morita, Itto/Kasai, Toshiharu. "A Butoh Dancer & Behavioral Scientist." 16 January 2000. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/butoh/itto/kasait/kasait.html

Nanjo, Fumio. "Tadanori Yokoo" (Interview with Yokoo Tadanori.) Flash Art (International Edition). No. 137 (Nov/Dec 1987). 96-97.

O'Dair, Barbara. "Yoko Ono" (Interview with Yoko Uno.) Rolling Stone, issue 773. New York: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. Nov. 13, 1997. 114-115.

Paik, Nam Jun. "To Catch Up or Not to Catch Up with the West: Hijikata and Hi Red Center." Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 77-81.

Reconstructions: Avant-garde Art in Japan 1945-1965: an exhibition. Oxford and New York: Museum of Modern Art (Oxford) and Universe Books, 1985.

Rolf, Robert T. and John K. Gillespie, eds. Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

Saiki, Maggie Kinser. "Yokoo Tadanori: Mother Nature’s Son." Graphis no. 315. 66-68.

Thorton, Richard S. The Graphic Spirit of Japan. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Yokoo, Tadanori. One Hundered Posters of Tadanori Yokoo. New York: Images Graphiques, 1978.

III. Contemporary art and design websites

Artscape: On-line Art Magazine (in Japanese).
http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/nmp/artscape/index.html

Canon Artlab website (in Japanese and English).
http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/artlab/index-j.html

Dot.jp: A Curator's Japan Diary. Reports on Japanese media art from MOMA curator Barbara London.
http://media.moma.org/dot.jp/

Makoto Saito ImageKiosk (in English). Work of the contemporary graphic designer Makoto Saito.
http://www.koyosha.com/imagekiosk/

NTT InterCommunications Center (ICC) homepage (in Japanese and English). http://www.ntticc.or.jp/menu_e.html

Yamaguchi, Yumi, ed. Tokyo Trash. (On-line art magazine in Japanese and English).
http://www.so-net.ne.jp/tokyotrash/

 


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