Hijikata: Revolt Of The Body by Stephen Barber

By Stephen Barber

Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) invented the progressive functionality artwork 'Ankoku Butoh' - now celebrated all over the world as some of the most leading edge and haunting modern paintings varieties. Hijikata is the excellent determine within the final half-century of Japan's experimental tradition, and is still a seminal and inspirational presence there for artists, choreographers, film-makers, musicians and writers. His impression is usually popular in Europe, North and South the US, and, more and more, in different East Asian nations. Hijikata's 'dance of darkness', respected through Yukio Mishima, kinds an ever-more prescient and revelatory functionality artwork. This crucial learn of Hijikata is the first-ever account of his lifestyles and paintings in English, and is predicated on vast interviews together with his surviving collaborators. specifically, it seems to be on the engagement in Hijikata's paintings with eu literary resources similar to Artaud, Genet and Sade, and at his functionality art's try and reconfigure the character of reminiscence and of the human anatomy. The booklet additionally lines the social turmoil of Tokyo through the interval within which Hijikata was once lively within the urban, and explores the ways that his functionality paintings was once rendered into such types as movie and images. Illustrated by means of 20 revealing images, HIJIKATA:ˆREVOLTˆOFˆTHEˆBODY could be of significant curiosity to all readers engaged with functionality paintings, theatre and picture, in addition to with jap tradition in general.

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