Gutai: Painting With Time and Space

First Edition, 2010. 263 pages.

Book measures 10 x 11inches. Edited By Marco Franciolli, Fuyumi Namioka, Tijs Visser. Includes 70 color and 130 black and white illustrations. Text in Italian and English. This catalogue, published as part of initiatives that the Lugano Art Museum dedicated in 2010 to Japanese art and culture, focuses on the first and second Gutai periods (1954–1960 and 1961–1964), the most intense and significant phases in the search for new languages. The volume's essays explore the movement’s scope and legacy more than forty-five years after its dissolution. The catalog also presents—along with a selection of works by the group’s most prominent artists—a wealth of documentation, including rare period photographs. It traces the history of the Japanese art group Gutai, founded in 1954 in Ashiya, near Osaka, by the painter Jiro Yoshihara and other young artists, including Shozo Shimamoto, Chiyu Uemae, and Tsuruko Yamazaki. The group's activity— which lasted eighteen years and featured happenings, open-air installations, one-day exhibitions, action painting, and theatrical performances—influenced postwar international art and anticipated phenomena such as Fluxus and Conceptual Art.

Near Fine in clean bright wrappers. Binding is tight. A scarce title.