TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogdanova-Kummer,Eugenia
TI  - Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde
T2  - Japanese Visual Culture
SN  - 9789004437067
AV  - N7480 
U1  - 705 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Art
KW  - Historiography
N2  - The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. To this end, the Bokujinkai collaborated with artists from European Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism, sharing exhibition spaces with them in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and beyond. The first English-language book to focus on the postwar history of Japanese calligraphy, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde explains how the Bokujinkai rerouted the trajectory of global abstract art and attuned foreign audiences to calligraphic visualities and narratives
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004437067
ER  -