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In the decades following World War II, both Japan and Italy were
rebuilding after the ravages of war, constructing democratic
political systems after a period of fascism and transforming into
economic powerhouses, all of which profoundly influenced their
respective cultures. Artists in both nations were working in these
similar conditions, examining their formidable artistic traditions
and seeking a new path forward in the wake of modernism--ways of
making art objects that had never been made before. Parallel Views
presents a breadth of postwar masters of Italian and Japanese art.
The 153 artworks reproduced here include works by the Italian
proto-Arte Povera and Arte Povera artists Alighiero Boetti, Alberto
Burri, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz,
Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Mimmo
Rotella. Central figures in the Gutai movement--Matsutani Takesada,
Saburo Murakami, Shimamoto Shozo, Shiraga Kazuo--are represented,
as are important Mono-ha artists, including Lee Ufan, Sekine Nobuo,
Suga Kishio, and Takematsu Jiro, among others. At this time the art
world was becoming increasingly fragmented and global, and teasing
out the historical connections is complex. This volume gives
readers a unique opportunity to view works that have rarely been
shown or considered together but in fact share common themes and
concerns. As essayist Joshua Mack states, "Modernism was not a
process extending a dominant model from Paris or New York to
outlying countries, like Japan or Italy, but rather a process of
exchange between interlinked nodes. Its dynamic is a process of
creative interpretation in which concepts originating in one
context were understood differently in another." A panel discussion
among three leading scholars of this period in Italian and Japanese
art further examines the connections and simultaneities between the
art and artists of this period. Parallel Views invites readers to
explore a body of artworks that have been overlooked until recently
but warrant renewed attention.
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