Bokujinkai

• Verfasst von: Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Bokujinkai
• Titelzusatz: Japanese calligraphy and the postwar avant-garde
• Institutionen: Universität Heidelberg [Grad-verleihende Institution]
• Werktitel: Calligraphy's avant-garde$dthe Bokujinkai group in postwar Japan and its international aspirations
• Verf.angabe: by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 181 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Japanese visual culture ; volume 19
• Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 2016
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43706-7
• DOI: doi:10.1163/9789004437067
• Schlagwörter: (k)Bokujinkai / (g)Japan / (s)Kalligrafie / (s)Beziehung / (g)USA / (g)Europa / (s)Abstrakter Expressionismus / (s)Informel / (z)Geschichte 1950-1965
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, 1985 - : Bokujinkai. - Leiden : Brill, 2020. - xi, 181 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
• Sach-SW: Calligraphy, Japanese
• K10plus-PPN: 1703735951

Abstract

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.