Reiko Tomii (Independent Scholar, Japanese Modern Art)
| DATE: | Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies, History of Art |
The Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei first emerged in the vanguard scenes of Tokyo as a member of Hi Red Center in the early 1960s. An adept practitioner of Anti-Art, Akasegawa deployed a methodology that can be best summarized as "art imitating life." This interventional mode of operation could have real-life consequences, as amply demonstrated by his replica 1,000-yen note (1963), which lead to a criminal trial of the artist in 1966. This lecture examines Akasegawa's works before and after the trial, from Hi Red Center's Cleaning Event (1964) to The Sakura Illustrated, within a changing socio-political and cultural context.
Reiko Tomii is an art historian, curator, writer, translator, and editor, based in New York. Since 1992, she has worked as an independent scholar and curator with museums in Japan, Europe, and the United States. She has been a regular columnist for the Tokyo-based thrice monthly publication Shin Bijutsu Shinbun (New Art Newspaper) since 1996.
This event is free and open to the public.
