{"product_id":"money-trains-and-guillotines-9780822349808","title":"Money Trains and Guillotines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“William Marotti explicates the social and political context of the Yomiuri Independent avant-garde. . . . [A] remarkably detailed and vivid view of the activities of Akasegawa and his circle.” -- Mark Schilling * Japan Times *\u003cbr\u003e“None of these art interventions documented in\u003ci\u003e Money, Trains and Guillotines\u003c\/i\u003e are fully understandable without the background of the politics of the time, and the author skillfully presents both art and politics, focused and interwoven. Author William Marotti's twenty-year effort has produced a fine book.” -- Mike Mosher * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“[An] innovative, carefully crafted interdisciplinary history of the cultural origins of Japan’s 1968. . . . Appropriate to its rich and diverse visual subject matter, it is also beautifully illustrated and produced. Its provocative interrogation of conventional scholarly boundaries of discipline, chronology, narrative, and ontology, at the level not only of theory but also of practice, suggests a kinship with the efforts of the artists whose story it so carefully and sympathetically excavates.” -- Ethan Mark * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marotti’s subtle readings of these texts, underappreciated in Japanese scholarship, make a strong case for their importance within art history. \u003ci\u003eMoney, Trains, and Guillotines \u003c\/i\u003enot only\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efills in a major gap within English-language understanding of postwar Japanese art. Once translated into Japanese—which it should be, promptly—it should sharpen the discourse within Akasegawa’s home country.\" -- Kenji Kajiya * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“Marotti's detailed analysis of the Japanese artists' evolution from surrealist sensibility to interventionist action contributes immensely to our understanding of how the political aesthetic so characteristic of the 1960s emerged simultaneously in numerous countries…. A vivid, highly informed and richly rewarding investigation of art and politics under post-1945 capitalism in Japan.” -- Justin Jesty * Art in America *\u003cbr\u003e“William Marotti’s book is a landmark study of political art and the politics of artistic expression in contemporary Japan. . . . Marotti uncovers a fascinating, provocative, and sometimes-shocking history of political art. . ..  Marotti’s attention to detail and to the emotional life of his subjects is truly engrossing in the best traditions of microhistory. . . .  [T]his is a richly documented, thoughtprovoking, and marvelously sculptured piece of scholarship that will be immensely enriching for anyone interested in issues of constitutional freedoms, artistic expression, and the intersection of politics and the everyday in postwar Japan.” -- Simon Avenell * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will form a major addition to my teaching, providing an important counter-balance to the dominant narrative of a postwar Japan marching in drumbeat towards a capitalist future. In illuminating the ways in which culture and radical politics were enmeshed at this key juncture of postwar Japanese history, Marotti highlights the importance of the everyday as 'the central political arena for dissent and for policing.'\" -- Mark Pendleton * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Select Events xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Art against the Police: Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-Yen Prints, the State, and the Borders of the Everyday 9\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Vision of the Police 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Occupation, the New Emperor System, and the Figure of Japan 37\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Process of Art 74\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Artistic Practice Finds Its Object: The Avant-Garde and the \u003ci\u003eYomiuri Indépendant\u003c\/i\u003e 111\u003cbr\u003e 4. The \u003ci\u003eYomiuri Indépendant\u003c\/i\u003e: Making and Displacing History 117\u003cbr\u003e 5. The \u003ci\u003eYomiuri Anpan\u003c\/i\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Theorizing Art and Revolution 201\u003cbr\u003e 6. Beyond the Guillotine: Speaking of Art \/ Art Speaking 207\u003cbr\u003e 7. Naming the Real 245\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Moment of the Avant-Garde 284\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 317\u003cbr\u003e Notes 319\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography 393\u003cbr\u003e Index 405\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406065541463,"sku":"9780822349808","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349808.jpg?v=1730494410","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/money-trains-and-guillotines-9780822349808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}